Enlighten Up!
It follows an unemployed journalist for six months as, on the filmmaker's invitation, he travels from the US to India to practise under yoga masters including Pattabhi Jois, his first American pupil Norman Allen, and B. K. S. Iyengar.follows a 29-year-old unemployed journalist, Nick Rosen,[1] for six months as, on Kate Churchill's invitation, he travels the globe – New York, Boulder, California, Hawaii, India – to practise under yoga masters including Pattabhi Jois, his first American pupil Norman Allen,[2] and B. K. S. Iyengar to see if he will be converted.In Lee's view, Rosen, "a physically fit, intellectually skeptical journalist from New York",[5] both enables the viewer "to explore yoga through a surrogate, and it marginalizes Ms. Churchill's blatant agenda and rather grating personality.[1] Describing Churchill as "a longtime yoga buff",[1] he states that she chose Rosen, "a mellow type with a skeptical worldview and a resistance to spiritual oratory"[1] "to test her beliefs"."[1] Ronnie Scheib, writing on Variety, calls the film a "well-crafted pic[ture]" and a "simultaneously tongue-in-cheek and reverential docu[mentary that] will entertain the unenlightened without alienating the faithful.