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

作者 Benjamin Lorr
出版社 Ingram International Inc
商品描述 Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga:AuthorBenjaminLorrwanderedintoayogastudio--andfelldownarabbitho

內容簡介

內容簡介 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 group of yogis for whom eight hours of practice a day in 110- degree heat was just the beginning. So begins a journey. 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. The culmination of two years of research, and featuring hundreds of interviews with yogis, scientists, doctors, and scholars, Hell-Bent is a wild exploration. 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 BENJAMIN LORR graduated from Columbia University with a degree in environmental biology and creative writing. He lives in New York City and is currently at work on his second book.

商品規格

書名 / Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
作者 / Benjamin Lorr
簡介 / Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga:AuthorBenjaminLorrwanderedintoayogastudio--andfelldownarabbitho
出版社 / Ingram International Inc
ISBN13 / 9781250042781
ISBN10 /
EAN / 9781250042781
誠品26碼 /
重量(g) / 272.2
裝訂 / P:平裝
頁數 / 320
語言 / 3:英文
級別 / N:無
尺寸 / 21.2X14.0X2.1CM

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Lorr explores the fascinating, often surreal world of Bikram Yoga, a style taught to millions by a very living guru, Bikram Choudhury. Bikram Yoga is distinguished by the extreme heat it is practiced in, an overt focus on pain, and the materialism of its founder.

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Lorr explores the fascinating, often surreal world of Bikram Yoga, a style taught to millions by a very living guru, Bikram Choudhury. Bikram Yoga is distinguished by the extreme heat it is practiced in, an overt focus on pain, and the materialism of its founder.

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