Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935, sleek, downy Ramon Novarro, 39-year-old cinemactor who once threatened to become an opera singer, has appeared in only one minor picture. Last week he let it be known he had forsworn the cinema to study Hindu philosophy, had become converted to Yoga, was now anxious only to attain a state of complete mental & physical tranquillity. Said Yogiman Novarro; "I learned the breathing exercises of Yogi, and I thought deeply of the philosophies involved...
...Yoga is an ingrown Hindu philosophical system whose object is fusing the "individual soul" with the "universal soul." Hindu yogins achieve that mystic goal after years of practice in emotional serenity and bodily control. The desired physical relaxation of yoga is achieved by means of contortions which "purify" the body. U. S. devotees of yoga are usually more interested in the philosophical and religious than the gymnastic aspects of the system. In India, on the other hand, the most extraverted yogin to appear in centuries, Swami Kuvalayananda, thinks so highly of the physical side of yoga that he has developed...
...graduate student of psychology at Yale in 1931 when he won a Sterling Fellowship on which he returned to India to make a scientific study of one of his country's strangest cults. Under Swami Kuvalayananda, Dr. Behanan conscientiously underwent a year's novitiate in yoga. Already acquainted with the philosophy, he concentrated on yoga's principal calisthenics...
After gathering his yoga experience, Dr. Behanan returned to Yale's Institute of Human Relations where he used occidental psychological and physiological apparatus to analyze the effects of yogic practices, which he continued as much for self as for Science. Before he took up yoga he suffered frequent headaches, lacked vigor. Now: "No work, physical or mental, could tire me so rapidly as it did before. . . . My mental-emotional life is no longer a blind catch-as-catch...
...YOGA, A Scientific Evaluation-Macmillan...