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Podcast: J. Brown Yoga Talks
Episode: Benjamin Lorr - "Exposing Bikram Yoga"
Description: You are listening to the free version of J. Brown Yoga Talks. To hear the rest of our conversation, please subscribe to podcast premium at: https://www.jbrownyoga.com/premium. Â Benjamin Lorr, author of Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga, talks with J about Bikram Yoga, how it lead to writing his tell-all book on the subject, and the aftershocks that are still being felt today. They discuss Benjamin's first place prize in a yoga competition, paradoxes at work in Bikram Choudhury and his yoga system, power dynamics a...