Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your ill-mannered article on yoga [July 11], you have made no bones about the fact that you consider, along with Benedictine Déchanet, the Hindu conception of God as the Supreme Self as absurd...
...chanet should realize that the practice of yoga is Hindu through and through, and that a true yogi cannot be a Christian just as a true Benedictine cannot be a Hindu...
...wardrobe. He also walks the dogs (a Weimaraner and a pointer), parks the car, and always travels with her: "Someone has to carry the money. She never does. She sings, as she says, for the dog biscuits, and I do the worrying." To help her relax, he took up yoga with her, and when she needs slimming, he goes on a diet too, although he is slender himself. His anonymity does not bother him in the least: "Debeljevic doesn't work very easily on the telephone with a stranger. It's easier to say yes, this...
Father Dechanet chose one of the most basic forms of yoga: hatha-yoga, the discipline of the body and breathing. The hatha-yogis of India use 84 different asanas, or postures. For Christian yogis, Dechanet recommends 14, and illustrates them with simple diagrams (see cuts...