Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should be honest. I didn't come to save my soul, which is probably a good thing, because Buddhists don't believe souls exist. I came to further my recent interest in Yoga, to twist my body into a pretzel in the middle of the woods, and to maybe get a little religion out of the whole thing. It was touted as a "Zen yoga" weekend, after...
Serenity, for instance. An idea easily entertained by Harvard folk, and then dropped when midterms arrive (last week being the most recent, painful example). But the monks and the residents of Dai Bosatsu live in a relatively serene state, buoyed by tranquil post-meditation moments and long yoga stretches...
Equally significant is the flood of substitute religions. The most prominent of these is the so-called New Age movement -- a vast, amorphous hodgepodge of spiritualism, faith healing, reincarnation, meditation, yoga, macrobiotic diets, mystical environmentalism and anything else that helps transform the self. Its followers sound as if they were born again, but without Christ. A motto often used by them is borrowed from Joseph Campbell: "Follow your bliss...
After aggravating the hamstring, Zimmerman went through almost four months of physical therapy that included acupuncture, yoga and sonograms...
...machine that measures skin temperature (stress cools, relaxation warms) or electrodermal response (similar to an electrocardiogram), the patient, wired with sensors, learns to control what is usually involuntary: circulation to the extremities, tension in the jaw, heartbeat rates and even pupil size (for advanced students). "If you studied yoga for years, you might be able to get the same effect," says Dr. Elliot Wineburg, assistant professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan...