Hell-bent : obsession, pain, and the search for something like transcendence in competitive yoga
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New York : St. Martin's Press, c2012.
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viii, 312 pages : ill. ; 25 cm.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, c2012.
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Book
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-310).
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"Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga. Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found the yoga reinventing his life. He was studying Bikram Yoga (or 'hot yoga') when a run-in with a master and competitive yoga champion led him into an obsessive subculture--a group of yogis for whom eight hours of practice a day in 110-degree heat was just the beginning. Populated by athletic prodigies, wide-eyed celebrities, legitimate medical miracles, and predatory hucksters, it's a nation-spanning trip--from the jam-packed studios of New York to the athletic performance labs of the University of Oregon to the stage at the National Yoga Asana Championship, where Lorr competes for glory. Hell-Bent is the culmination of two years of research, and featuring hundreds of interviews with yogis, scientists, doctors, and scholars. A look at the science behind a controversial practice, a story of greed, narcissism, and corruption, and a mind-bending tale of personal transformation, it is a book that will not only challenge your conception of yoga, but will change the way you view the fragile, inspirational limits of the human body itself."--www.Amazon.com.

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