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...process isn't automatic. Especially in their first sessions, yoga students may have trouble suppressing those competitive beta waves. We want to better ourselves, but also to do better than others; we force ourselves into the gym-rat race. "Genuine Hatha yoga is a balance of trying and relaxing," says Dr. Timothy McCall, an internist and the author of Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize...
There are eight major schools of yoga, from Bhakti, which is mostly about prayer and mantra chanting, to Tantra, which is largely about sex. Most yoga studios and fitness centers in America teach some type of Hatha yoga, the yoga of activity. Hatha comes in hundreds of different flavors--each emphasizing different body postures and breathing techniques. These are some of the most popular...
...Turlington has also signed on as an editor at large for Yoga Journal magazine, and has a contract with Hyperion to write a book about being a student of yoga - "kind of a 'Why Yoga'," she says - focused on all aspects of yoga, not just the hatha (physical) branch...
...process isn't automatic. Especially in their first sessions, yoga students may have trouble suppressing those competitive beta waves. We want to better ourselves, but also to do better than others; we force ourselves into the gym-rat race. "Genuine Hatha yoga is a balance of trying and relaxing," says Dr. Timothy McCall, an internist and the author of Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care. "But a lot of gym yoga is about who can do this really difficult contortion to display to everyone else in the class." The workout warriors have to realize...
Jones is also a 20 year practitioner of hatha yoga. He lifts weights, runs on a treadmill and on some mornings does 200 pushups under the guidance of his personal trainer...