Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost never mentioned in the same breath with the word "athletics." But, surprise, MIT has the largest athletic program in the country--consisting of 37 men's and women's varsity sports, and an incredible array of over 23 club and intramural sports ranging from archery to yoga...
...says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family pundit in Trinidad. It is a difficult yoga bend that leaves the writer arched backward with his head on the floor...
Thousands of other sufferers are turning to nutritionists, acupuncturists, herbalists, hypnotists and yoga instructors. AIDS sufferers swear by such self-help books as You Can Heal Your Life (Hay House) by Louise Hay, originally written for cancer patients. Another favorite is Love, Medicine & Miracles (Harper & Row) by Dr. Bernard Siegel, a Yale Medical School professor who theorizes that patients who take a role in their own treatment have the best chances of survival...
...depicts the rebellion of a middle-aged New England WASP. Forty-two-year-old Sarah Worth abandons her tidy life as a doctor's wife in Boston to embark on a journey to Arizona to live in a Buddhist commune. Her house wife's adventure into a yoga class, initially for exercise and recreation, has introduced her to the teachings of Ahrat, a spiritual leader modeled after the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh...
...same morning, at an Indian burial site in Cartersville, Ga., 75 believers gathered. They sat in small groups and burned incense and sage. One man produced a tortoiseshell on which he arranged some amethysts. As the darkness dissolved, yoga practitioners began a series of alarming birdlike maneuvers...