Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga

His yoga focused on control and manipulation. Until she broke the sequence.

For fans of Netflix's Bikram, Tara Westover's Educated, and Megan Phelps-Roper's Unfollow

"The word yoga comes from the same root as the word yoke-to tie together."

Joelle Tamraz was barely past twenty when she traveled to India in search of spiritual wisdom. In Rishikesh, the home of yoga, she met an alluring older man who offered to teach her a secret practice. This encounter would realign her next twenty years.

Despite signs there was more to her Arun than his winning smile, she persisted in seeing him as her spiritual master, soul mate, and key to her destiny. Until one day she dared to open her eyes and change her pose to one of strength and harmony.

From darkness to light, from dependency to self-awareness, from psychological need to genuine love, The Secret Practiceis at once an exposé of a master manipulator, the exploration of a marriage, and the exhaustion of a disciple's faith.

"an intense and suspenseful memoir serving both as a cautionary tale and a dramatic depiction of masterful mind-control practiced on a vulnerable party"

-Kirkus Reviews