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...eventually have a spa (its opening was delayed by fire during construction). To celebrate the hotel's launch, it's offering a "We Fan Boston" package, giving guests a free night for every two-or-more-night stay, plus a full American breakfast for two every day at its Asana restaurant, and two tickets to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. 776 Boylston Street; 617-535-8888. Rate: $710 and up per night...
...with a Sanskrit mantra invoking Patanjali, the sage who compiled the Yoga Sutras, expounding ashtanga, or eight-limbed, yoga philosophy. The room is dimly lit and already slightly clammy when the students begin huffing and puffing their way through ten repetitions of surya namaskara, or sun salutation, the opening asana. Within a few minutes, their bodies are glistening with sweat as they flex themselves into scary positions, sometimes tugged and pushed by the teacher, all apparently impervious to the army of mosquitoes buzzing all around...
...high-pressure jobs and tune in to the authoritatively mellow voice of an instructor, gently urging them to solder a union (the literal translation of the Sanskrit word yoga) between mind and body. These Type A strivers want to become Type B seekers, to lose their blues in an asana (pose), to graduate from distress to de-stress. Fifteen million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimen?twice as many as did five years ago; 75% of all U.S. health clubs offer yoga classes. Many in those classes are looking not inward but behind. As supermodel Christy...
...they could goad the masses toward physical and spiritual enlightenment. Today yoga is practiced by so many stars with whom audiences are on a first-name basis?Madonna, Julia, Meg, Ricky, Michelle, Gwyneth, Sting?that it would be shorter work to list the actors who don't assume the asana. (James Gandolfini? We're just guessing...
...they could goad the masses toward physical and spiritual enlightenment. Today yoga is practiced by so many stars with whom audiences are on a first-name basis--Madonna, Julia, Meg, Ricky, Michelle, Gwyneth, Sting--that it would be shorter work to list the actors who don't assume the asana. (James Gandolfini? We're just guessing...