Books of The Times: ‘The Great Oom,’ by Robert Love, on Yoga’s Pierre Bernard
A lively and idiosyncratic biography of Pierre Bernard, a headline-making swami-entrepreneur who helped popularize yoga in America in the first decades of the 20th century.
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 April, 2010
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