Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nine years ago, he was an anonymous yoga teacher who owned little but a suitcase full of beads. Today he earns over $100,000 a year in lecture fees as Yogi Bhajan, the "Supreme Religious and Administrative Authority of the Sikh Religion in the Western Hemisphere." Thousands of American disciples in his Healthy-Happy-Holy Organization ("3HO") revere the robust, bearded Bhajan as the holiest man of this era. With equal fervor, opponents denounce him as a charlatan and a heretic...
Instrument of God. Desai rises each morning at 3 or 4 to pray, work at his spinning wheel and practice yoga until about 7. He eats only uncooked food-milk, fruit, cheese, carrot juice-and disdains even cereals. He also rejects alcohol, tobacco and modern medicine, and looks and acts at least 20 years younger than his 81 years. He swore off sex in his early 30s as a way of achieving self-control. In principle he favors national prohibition and regards self-control as the best means of achieving family planning-although, he quickly adds, he realizes that "governments...
...from worrying too much. It also keeps her away from New York two weeks out of three, and parted from Daily News Columnist Pete Hamill, 41, the man in her life for the past five years. While at home she stays trim with a regimen of exercise and yoga and a low-sugar diet. On the road her style is more inner-city Holiday Inn than posh hotel. "They're like motels without cars-you can go down the hall and get a bucket of ice," she figures. "It's also fun to run into all those salesmen...
...hour pilgrimage back to Vikhroli, the town near Bombay where she served as a Peace Corps nurse a decade ago. "I can't wait to kiss everybody," she said on arrival. Old friends greeted her as Lily behn (our sister Lily), and schoolchildren sang, danced and even performed yoga exercises in her honor. At the dispensary, a former patient told her that his asthma was better. "Of course," teased Mrs. Carter. "I cured you." As she moved from one patient to another, she murmured, as if to herself: "I feel like an angel, but I know...
...meantime, Fish is applying some of his theories to his players, and he has at least one athlete doing yoga exercises...