Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sensible way to contemplate the state of affairs in the American League last week was in what yoga enthusiasts call the Sirsasana position-standing on one's head. With the season two-thirds over, the Baltimore Orioles, last year's first-place team, were in eighth place, and the Chicago White Sox, last year's fourth-place team, were in first. Add to that the fact that the three toughest clubs in the league at the moment were 1) the Washington Senators, 2) the California Angels, and 3) the Boston Red Sox, all of which were patsies...
...performing in the West, Indian Sitar Master Ravi Shankar, 47, has won a devoted following among musicians from Jazzman Dave Brubeck to Beatle George Harrison. But only one notable Westerner has ever performed with him: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 51, longtime apostle of Indian culture and faithful practitioner of yoga. The two met in India in 1952, and Menuhin persuaded Shankar to play last summer at the Bath Festival in England. In what both performers termed "an experiment," Menuhin practiced his violin for two days under Shankar's coaching so that he could sit in on a raga. Clad...
...like jumping into a cool pool on a hot summer day. I just didn't feel like taking notes." The most difficult dress problem was encountered by Writer Robert Jones, who visited a commune called Morning Star near Sebastopol, Calif., where he was invited to join the yoga exercises. They are usually done in the nude. Jones took off only his shoes...
...immerse everybody in sound and sight. When the spell takes hold, young mothers with sleeping infants in their arms waltz dreamily around the floor; other dancers drift into a private reverie, devising new ways to contort their bodies. Some of the crowd sit in a yoga-like trance or, if that fails to satisfy, roll on the floor...
...members, operating 264 residences across the U.S. and carrying on activities in 74 countries abroad. No longer sexually segregated, the Y.W. has more than 240,000 men enrolled in its mammoth educational and recreational programs, which offer an assortment of courses ranging from cooking and shorthand to yoga and judo...