Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...negativity. I am positivity. When they hate, I love. I send out waves of love to them. I pray for them. They hate me so much they can't eat and they can't sleep. But I laugh, I play tennis, I play cricket, I do yoga exercises, I dance, and I am happy inside. Very happy." Patting his flat stomach and flexing his muscles, he added: "And I am strong inside...
...Catholicism is represented by a Trappist monastery and a Mexican American parish, mainstream Protestantism by Manhattan's posh St. James' Episcopal Church and a Midwest Lutheran parish, the Jews by a Hasidic sect. Two segments are about black Christianity, one about a Jesus commune, one on Kundalini yoga. But the series' special focus is not on ways of worship but on individuals who have faith...
...appearance in the U.S. to Jacobs' wife Eleanor, who first came across them in a small Copenhagen shop. "I tried them on and immediately my sore back felt better," she says. That discovery led the Jacobses to track down the shoe's designer, Anne KalsØ, a yoga teacher who had for years observed the effects of shoes on posture. On a trip to South America she confirmed a favorite theory: lower heels mean better carriage. The Brazilian Indians, she decided, owed their erect stance to long years of sinking barefoot heels into soft terrain. Returning to Denmark...
...Later he opened four more and awarded dealerships to 35 other owners, 20 of them in the past year. "It's not just a business, it's a life-style," explains Eleanor Jacobs. "Most of our shop owners, as well as customers, are into things like yoga and vegetarian eating." They are also totally into their strange footwear. "When I got married last weekend," confesses Albie Sikirdji, a Bronx student, "I wore my Earth Shoes...
...help men become "conscious collaborators" in their evolution, Aurobindo taught his own humanistic version of yoga. While traditional yoga disciples strive to free the spirit from the body's domination, Aurobindo sought to transform earthly existence by bringing the divine down into it. Aurobindo's vision of a "supramental" human consciousness has often been compared to Teilhard de Chardin's hopes for an ever-increasing spiritualization of man and his world. "I saw them cross the twilight of an age," Aurobindo wrote in his 24,000-line epic poem Savitri, "the sun-eyed children of a marvelous...