The Secret Practice

<p><strong>His yoga focused on control and manipulation. Until she broke the sequence.</strong></p><p><strong><em>For fans of Netflix's Bikram Tara Westover's Educated and Megan Phelps-Roper's Unfollow</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The word yoga comes from the same root as the word yoke-to tie together.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From darkness to light from dependency to self-awareness from psychological need to genuine love </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Secret Practice</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is at once an expos�� of a master manipulator the exploration of a marriage and the exhaustion of a disciple's faith.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>an intense and suspenseful memoir serving both as a cautionary tale and a dramatic depiction of masterful mind-control practiced on a vulnerable party</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>-Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p>