Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...energy of religious renewal," Roszak concludes, "that will generate the next politics." He sees the counterculture, with its spiritual ragtag of yoga, I Ching and the signs of the zodiac, as "a massive salvage operation" to reclaim the wholeness of man by "magic and dreams...
...going on now is that the culture has split into mechanism and mysticism, and the people who are thinking of problems on a planetary scale are moving in opposite directions. Their solutions are different in content but have similar structures. So that planetary mysticism-the countercultural movement, Yoga, Zen, Subud, Sufism and all of the other newly popular religions-is trying to create an ideology for the planet that can relate to the limits of growth: non-aggression on nature; different relationships between men and women; a mysticism that is rooted in the physical, as it is in, say, Yoga...
...weights, skipping rope, riding an Exercycle, doing sit-ups and pummeling a 300-lb. bag. "You gotta stay in shape," he says, "or it's all over." For his part, Spassky retired months ago to a dacha outside Moscow with a team of handlers. His regimen included running, swimming, yoga and daily sessions with a chess-playing psychologist...
...Tennis Ranch in Carmel Valley, Calif. There, 20 students at a time spend $450 for a grueling five-day immersion in fundamentals and tactics. Gardiner's exhausting program is embellished by rubdowns from a masseur who used to work for the Gabor sisters and lessons in "yoga-tennis"-a scheme that is supposed to teach tennis tabbies to psych themselves into becoming tigers. Although most of Gardiner's clients are middleaged, he also conducts three-week summer clinics for adolescent racketeers...
...Angeles Times story on the city's mayor, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Sam Yorty, Actress Candice Bergen scored a small scoop: Sam and Betts Yorty both practice meditation. The mayor does it yoga-style in the bathroom after a shower; Betts does it with a mantra (the repetition of a syllable pattern). "I've been meditating for 30 years," Sam told Candy. "I regard it as just concentrated prayer. It lets me gather up strength for the day to withstand the barbs in the Times...