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Yoga with Neal Pollack

NOTE: Due to limited space, this is a FREE ticketed event.

215 Festival founder/author Neal Pollack was out of shape. The hair on his head was thinning and the hair on his face was pretentioustraits a New York Times critic gleefully pointed out while panning his second book. Combined with the predestined failure of his punk rock band, it was almost too much for Pollack to bear. He was willing to try anything to get his life back on track . . . even yoga.

While struggling to master difficult poses without kicking other yogis in the face, Pollack actually, remarkably, began to feel better, both in body and mind. Soon he found himself immersed in the "weird and circuslike" world of yoga. He participated in a 24-hour yogathon, attended yoga conferences and Asian retreats, went to yoga rock shows, started getting regular assignments for Yoga Journal magazine, and, finally, began teaching yoga classes himself.

The book he penned based on that experience, Stretch, mercilessly lampoons the bizarre, omnipresent culture of yoga, but it's also a story of profound personal transformation. Pollack started off mocking yoga. Now he's become one of its most enthusiastic proponents. Join him for this once-in-a-lifetime yoga class at South Philly's Wake Up Yoga.