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Mad Yogis

It happens a lot. I'm in a yoga class, really aiming to do precisely what the teacher says. That is, visualize my breath flowing through my body down to my toes and into the tips of my fingers. I let go of any angry thoughts. I relax my jaw. Read More

Prepub synopsis only boils down to the bad bits

I read the NYT magazine's teaser for the book a month or so before the book appeared. It was scary and fascinating. And it mentioned few if any of the benefits mentioned here. It wouldn't surprise me if the magazine version of the author's work is what people are reacting to.

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Here's the cite to the article "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body," January 5, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body....

Prepub synopsis only boils down to the bad bits

I read the NYT magazine's teaser for the book a month or so before the book appeared. It was scary and fascinating. And it mentioned few if any of the benefits mentioned here. It wouldn't surprise me if the magazine version of the author's work is what people are reacting to.

# # #

Here's the cite to the article "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body," January 5, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body....

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Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., is the author of Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank.

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