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Nick Rosen, B.K.S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, Norman Allen, Sharon Gannon

Kate Churchill is a filmmaker and a dedicated yoga practitioner who insists that yoga can transform anyone. She decides to prove it. Her plan: select a subject, immerse him in yoga and follow him unti...( read more  read more... )l he finds a yoga practice that transforms him. Her subject: Nick Rosen a skeptical, 29 year-old journalist living in New York City.

Intrigued by the opportunity to peek behind the curtain of a 5.7 billion dollar "spiritual" industry, Nick signs on to investigate yoga for 6 months. Before he can say OM, he finds himself twisted up like a pretzel, surrounded by celebrity yogis, true believers, kooks, entrepreneurs and a gentle teacher from Brazil who leads his class with his feet behind his head.

The more Nick investigates yoga the more contradictions he discovers, leading him to question whether yoga is anything more than a workout. As Nick searches for concrete facts and discards the lofty spiritual theories of his yoga teachers, he strays further from Kate’s original plan. The two find themselves lost in Northern India, embroiled in a struggle between Kate’s expectations and Nick’s overt rejection of "spirituality."

They circle the globe talking to mystics, gurus, mad men and saints searching for the true meaning of yoga. Ultimately, both Nick and Kate end up in places they never could have imagined. They don’t find the answers to their questions, they find much more.

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  • hypathio7
    June 3, 2009
    hypathio7
    I generally like fictional movies with really good production values. I'm finding that I appreciate some documentaries with very low budgets and elements that I recognize are not perfect. All of the audio and camera work and narrative not being perfect only adds to the candidne...( read more)ss of the project and increases the power of the message in certain ways. With the director picking Nick Rosen as the subject of her Yoga movie, I think she chose a very good face and mind for the film. Choosing a young skeptical reporter from New York was a perfect choice for having the movie speak to people like me. I do not practice yoga or know much about it. Through Nick and the director Kate the movie is informative, candid, enlightening, and at times amusing. There are many little jewels of wisdom to pick up from the various yoga instructors that Nick visits. And it is not a film that ends up suggesting that Yoga has some magical power and is the right thing for everyone to practice. The narrative climaxes with an inspiring question session between Nick and a Yogi with a yellowish orange turban. Does something like Yoga change you? Well it can. Even for someone like Nick it has an affect when he's surrounded by it for such a compact amount of time. He is changed for the better. But it is not by Yoga that everyone will find their true selves or happiness. This movie is for people who have Yoga experience and just as much for those who don't!
  • merillupin
    October 22, 2009
    merillupin
    It was really neat looking at yoga practices in India; clearly the North American practices are more familiar, but also did not affect Nick. Filmmaker Kate was kind of a bitch, and not talented enough to make up for it.
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    November 30, 2009
    daciacp
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  • jenn1984106
    November 19, 2009
    jenn1984106
    I found this an extremely interesting documentary.
  • threefolddado
    June 12, 2009
    threefolddado
    Recommended by Hypathio7.
  • chelseafeller
    April 26, 2009
    chelseafeller
    I love yoga! And this movie actually wasn;t even that bad but it's a lot of movie, There were a few parts of the movie that were amazing but mostly it was a yawner.
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