Summary: This week, we found many surprising twists, turns, and holds in the story of modern yoga. <br><br><strong>The Facts<br></strong><br>Surprisingly Awesome’s Theme Music is “This is How We Do” by Nicholas Britell and our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, and produced by Rachel Ward, Christine Driscoll and Elizabeth Kulas. Andrew Dunn mixed the episode. <br><br>Jacob Cruz, James T. Green, Emma Jacobs, Rikki Novetsky, and Benjamin Riskin provided production assistance. <br><br>Additional music in this episode is "Santoor and Tabla at Assi Ghat, Varanasi" by Samuel Corwin and "Electronica Tanpura 9" by sankalp.<br><br><strong>Learn More<br></strong><br>If you want to learn more about Wendy Doniger’s banned book, you can check out its page on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hindus-Alternative-History-Wendy-Doniger/dp/014311669X">here</a> -- Christine is in the middle of reading it and highly recommends it, and we are linking through Amazon so you can check out the reviews and get a window into the controversy surrounding it. <br><br>Or if you just wanna hear more about Indra Devi (and who wouldn’t?!) you can read more about her and get a copy of Michelle Goldberg’s book <a href="http://www.michellegoldberg.net/the-goddess-pose/">here</a>. Adam “can’t recommend it enough!” <br><br>And if you're like, "no way, take me to the science!" You can read more about the current research on the health benefits of yoga, by checking out <a href="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/reduce-risk-alzheimers-skip-lumosity-get-onto-yoga-mat">UCLA’s longer interview with Dr. Helen Lavretsky</a>, or a super informative article from Julia Belluz at Vox -- "<a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/7/22/9012075/yoga-health-benefits-exercise-science">I read more than 50 scientific studies about yoga. Here's what I learned.</a>"<br><br>Finally... Flossgate continues! You can head to our show page at <a href="http://www.gimletmedia.com/surprisingylyawesome">www.gimletmedia.com/surprisinglyawesome</a> to hear an extra interview and read some of the studies we looked at while building our flossing show.
