The Great Oom: the improbable birth of yoga in America

New York: Viking Press (2010)
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Chronicles the emergence of yoga in Jazz Age New York, tracing the contributions of instructor Pierre Bernard, who trained with an Indian master before introducing patrons to modern yogic principles from his profitable Hudson River ashram.

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B132.Y6.L64 2010

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