Word: ashrams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eschewed all spices as a discipline of the senses. He napped every day with a mud poultice on abdomen and brow. He was so insistent on absolute regularity in his daily regimen that he safety-pinned a watch to his homespun dhoti, synchronized with the clock at his ashram. He scheduled his bowel movements for 20 minutes morning and afternoon. "The bathroom is a temple," he said, and anyone was welcome to chat with him there. He had a cleansing enema every night...
...wonderful that the following year, Rogers went again--with 16 of her patients. And she's been going ever since. "The minute I get there, something inside of me relaxes," she says. "And after I get back, I continue to feel blissed out for a long time." The Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat on Paradise Island, open year-round, is not for everyone. The accommodations are spartan, the meals simple, and the schedule--well, meditation begins at 6 a.m., followed by yoga at 8 and a vegetarian brunch at 10. But for those who want to experience the healthful pleasures...
Well people, this is my final dispatch before the big 25th. As you know, I'll soon be turning over the class notes to the always capable TWIGG NELSON, so all future letters and cards should go to him c/o his ashram. In the meantime, I want to thank all the folks at the Alumni Bulletin who made this job such a snap...
...such a heady environment, it isn't surprising that Mia's godmother was gossip columnist Louella Parsons or that Charles Boyer lived next door. But celebrity seems to follow her. Her girlhood pet was the real Lassie's grandson. When she retreated to the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who should turn up but all four Beatles. They sang the night away. And while Farrow was in Hanoi undoing an adoption snag, she went to a commissary and found Mother Teresa eating breakfast...
...places on the globe where there isn't a Hard Rock Cafe. Music had become too corporate for Tigrett's liking; rock songs were turning up in cola commercials, beer companies were sponsoring concert tours. Tigrett wanted to get away from it all, find an ashram and meditate--and since he had profited mightily from rock commercialization himself, he had enough disposable income to finance his escape. But after a few years of respite, Tigrett's guru gave him a mission. "My master said that this was one of the darkest periods in man's existence," Tigrett recalls, "and that...