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Enlighten Up! (2009)

Enlighten Up! poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 22m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker and an unemployed journalist travel to India to study under famous yoga masters. The journalist tries different yoga styles and meets various teachers over six months.

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What happens

Enlighten Up! is a 2009 documentary film by Kate Churchill on yoga as exercise. It follows an unemployed journalist for six months as, on the filmmaker's invitation, he travels from the US to India to practise under yoga masters including Pattabhi Jois, his first American pupil Norman Allen, and B. K. S. Iyengar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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