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Feb 18, 2017 benjamin lorr, who wrote a booklength study of choudhury called hellbent in 2012, attended a training course in las vegas in 2009 and found himself drawn to choudhury, despite describing him as. Her trademarks involving imagining new worlds with unique politics, environments, genders, religions, sexualities and cultures. Author benjamin lorr wandered into a yoga studio and fell down a rabbit holehellbent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of american yoga. Lorr begins the book by discussing how he came to yoga in the first place he was trying to lose weight and get back in shape, and there was a bikram studio near his home in brooklyn. Hellbent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the.
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