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Long before Eric Oriol became Bikram’s enemy number one, he was just another student at Bikram Yoga North Miami. He loved that the classes in 107-degree heat helped him keep off the pounds. (“Us Haitians, if we don’t eat beans and rice, it’s like we’re not having dinner!” he says.) However, he soon began to feel excruciating pain in his lower back.
Oriol, who had injured his back years ago in the Navy, was wary of overdoing it. But his instructors encouraged him to continue taking classes — and paying, he says. Miami New Times has the rest of this strange tale.