Enlighten up! : a Skeptic's Journey Into the World of Yoga

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Call Number: DVD 294.54 En
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Documentary.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
Special features: Extended interviews with Yoga luminaries B.K.S. Iyengar, Gurusharanananda and Norman Allen; deleted scenes; photo montage of Northern India; fimmaker biography.
Nick Rosen.
Featuring B.K.S. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, Norman Allen, Sharon Gannon, David Life, Gurmukh, Dharma Mittra, Cyndi Lee, Alan Finger, Rodney Yee, Beryl Bender Birch, Shaymdas, Diamond Dallas Page.
Determined to prove that Yoga can transform anyone, filmmaker Kate Churchill finds a test subject to document. Nick Rosen is skeptical, but agrees to be her guinea pig. Kate immerses Nick in yoga and follows him around the world as he examines the good, the bad and the ugly of Yoga. The two encounter celebrity yogis, true believers, kooks and world-renowned gurus. Tensions soar as Nick's transformational progress lags and Kate's plan crumbles. Ultimately, what they find is not what they were looking for.
DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., NTSC.

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You can't always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need. submitted by cherylo on August 1, 2011, 8:25pm As someone who has studied yoga, but perhaps not seriously enough, for about 20 years, I really appreciated this documentary. Yoga is diverse and confusing for the beginner (and often the experienced yogi/yogini too!), so it was nice to see an attempt to sort through the many facets of this set of practices from the point of view of an absolute newcomer. If you're looking to seriously study and codify the different parts of yoga, this may not be the place to start, but it is a great supplement. Like yoga itself, I think what the viewer takes away from this video will depend on what that viewer brings to it. The extras, mostly extended interviews or studies of some of the participating teachers, were a wonderful addition.

Also, for the parents out there, there are a few unexpected and unbleeped f-bombs, just so you are aware.

amazing! submitted by fairytale on July 31, 2012, 4:34pm This is one of the best documentaries I've seen. I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend it!

Good intro to yoga but not definitive submitted by klickitat on August 21, 2012, 7:47pm I think this documentary would have been much stronger if the filmmaker hadn't inserted herself so forcefully into the process. Often when she's questioning her subject, Nick, she appears to trying to lead him to her own foregone conclusions, which seems counter intuitive to the documentary process. As Nick says at one point, maybe she should have just used herself as a subject.

I appreciate this yoga exploration submitted by yufamily on August 17, 2020, 7:44pm This guy was really committed to learning yoga and at the end, he was honest about his final conclusion. Authenticity is good.