Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga

by Benjamin Lorr

Book Overview

Author Benjamin Lorr wandered into a yoga studio--and fell down a rabbit hole

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125004278X
• ISBN13: 9781250042781
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"