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One of amazons top selling authors on yoga, a leading advocate of the surging yoga for men movement, founder of man flow yoga, and chief yoga beast at body by yoga, dean started practicing yoga to help recover from the grueling workouts of a lacrosse player. Hell bent by benjamin lorr is a vivid adventure in yoga. A remarkable investigation into the world of bikram yoga, by turns shocking, hilarious and enlightening. Obsession, pain, and the search for something like transcendence in competitive yoga lorr, benjamin on. Get hellbent, benjamin lorrs tale of obsession, pain. Hellbent is most compelling as a yoga memoir depicting lorrs personal practice with his friends, and his observations on the transformative powers of any type of yoga. Author benjamin lorr wandered into a yoga studioand fell down a rabbit hole.
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