Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also the influence of Eastern religions, which is to be found wherever the members of Woodstock Nation gather. Yoga disciplines, for instance, have always included "natural" foods while proscribing meats, and some of the new vegetarians share the Hindu regard for all living creatures. A meatless diet is also considered more conducive to meditation and higher awareness. A few neo-yogis find that even vegetables are too mundane and go on to become fruitarian. "Fruit is probably the most spiritual food there is," says Craig Bennett, 23, a Southern California follower of the Indian guru, Rhada Swami...
Going beyond yoga, many cultural revolutionaries are adopting-or at least sampling-an imported version of the dietary discipline of the Zen Buddhists. That diet had been dubbed macrobiotic (from makros, meaning long, and bios, meaning life) by the late Japanese Author George Ohsawa, who wrote dozens of abstruse books on ancient Oriental diet and medicine and was the principal proselytizer for macrobiotics in Europe...
Sylvia, an attractive blonde woman with three grown children, used a number of well-tested psychological devices to draw all of us fully into the sessions. We did yoga deep-breathing exercises, and sat back-to-back in pairs, talking to each other only about our immediate feelings, the "here and now" that is all-important to Gestaltists. We looked long and often uncomfortably into each other's eyes, then walked around in silence with our eyes closed, making physical contact with each other-clasping hands, embracing, caressing -whatever we were moved...
...glory doesn't mean to Pottetti what it used to. He's done some running this month after his usual summer layoff, but now he's doing yoga instead of working out by the Charles. He said Wednesday that he hadn't run in over a week...
AFTER unpacking, the village vacationers hurry to sign up for riding, tennis, sailing, swimming, fencing, judo, calisthenics, yoga. For the less ambitious there is volleyball, table tennis, bowls, pitching horseshoes or just walking in the woods. Europeans are becoming as serious about le sport as Americans, partly because of what the French call le standing, or status. There is exercise for the mind as well as the muscles. The library is handily placed next to the bar. Every evening there are taped concerts of jazz classics or chamber music, and a pretty Parisienne lectures on painting. Tired tennis players...