
Part Two: The First American Yoga Cult Leader
Behind the Bastards
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The Power of the Pickup Artists
Bickram left India for Japan, where he found the winters horrible. He decided to bring in space heaters to class first just to keep himself warm. Over time, he keeps turning the room out hotter and hotter and hotter until the temperature matched the vicious heat of Calcutta. Now there is an extent to which heat, you know, you can like you put a heating pad on like if you've got like a stiff knee or something,. Heat can benefit movement and make it easier for people with conditions like arthritis to move.
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