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...Even though Turlington studies all six branches of yoga (and views her charity work and anti-smoking activism as seva - "service," an aspect of Karma Yoga), she's not critical of the popular exercise-oriented yoga boom, other than to worry some about the lack of standardization among teachers...
...Turlington doesn't dispute yoga's physical benefits. She's done weight training, but found it boring and also that it prompted a different result. "Yoga's a different kind of strength, because everything is about elongating and strengthening from the core...
...celebrity thing is tricky," Turlington acknowledges. "Seva is a big part of my daily yoga practices, and I wouldn't be able to communicate with as many people if I weren't in the public eye. But I definitely worried at first with Nuala if this was a sacred, spiritual thing that I'm exploiting...
...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...
...Still a frequent traveler, Turlington has figured out how to get yoga instruction on the road, usually in the Ashtanga style. "I find teachers wherever I go," she says, including when she was on trips last summer to Japan and Australia. She'll either go to a class, like at Brentwood's Maha Yoga when she's in L.A. (where the Ashtanga style is melded with popular music), or she'll arrange to have a teacher come to her hotel room...