24Oct/080
COMPLETE FACTS JUST ABOUT YOGA
Turbaned gurus, intoned mantras and carnal crookednesses . . . the prognosticate of admittedly enlightenment and omphaloskepsis (contemplation of the naval) finishes the platitude. Simply do not bump yoga until you have strained it, and so only with honour. Yoga implies to oblige in collaboration -- diversely connecting sun and moon, left and right, male and female, and any number of yins and yangs -- by ascetical methods of meditation and recitation. ...14Oct/080
GOT A FEW MINUTES
Ina Mirx is 68, looks 35, and can do things with her body that a 16-year-old farm hand can't do, but she wasn't always fit-as-a-fiddle. At the age of 30, while pregnant, she was forced to jump from the third story of a burning hotel. She landed on concrete, fractured her spine and pelvis, broke several ribs -- and lost her child. Over the next 10 years Marx tried nearly every ...12Sep/080
HISTORY OF YOGA
Yoga began in India 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit language and means, to join or integrate, or simply union. Yoga started, as far as we know, as part of India's philosophical system, but not everyone practiced yoga, and it has never been a religion. About 5 million people in the United States do some yoga. Dance and stretching exercise classes usually have parts ...