Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supermodel is more likely to be found in a leotard and tights, in an environment in which the word pose takes on a new meaning. Tiegs, 51, along with a multitude of other celebrities, has discovered a magical fountain of youth in the deep breathing and graceful poses of yoga. For the past 18 months she has been attending three classes a week at Yogatopia in Brentwood, Calif...
...Yoga was a challenge in the beginning, even for the famously fit Tiegs. "The first six months, my yoga mat was like a swimming pool by the time class was over," she says. "I had never worked so hard in my life." But the hard work has resulted in a sublime sense of well-being. "I no longer feel like a leaf blowing in the wind," she says. "I'm on solid ground, and I've never felt better. I have a feeling of power and strength within myself." Yoga is now "a necessity, not a luxury" for Tiegs. Could...
...says her side can win without resorting to explicitly anti-gay rhetoric, and she says she told the national Christian Coalition she wouldn't work with a local affiliate group she found "homophobic." Still, the campaign's most quoted and colorful character is strategist Michael Gabbard, who practices bhakti yoga and runs something called Stop Promoting Homosexuality International. He constantly reduces homosexuality to its bedroom component, calling it a "behavior" that society shouldn't "accept." He blames gays for the failure of his health-food store, which they picketed...
Kick boxing, step aerobics and spinning went out with chunk heels and the Magic Hour. Perpetually en vogue Lowell House, however, provides the exercise class du jour. Learn to bend yourself into a Rold Gold at their weekly yoga class, but beware of the pose entitled "Down Dog." 5 p.m., Lowell House. FREE...
Interested in Pilates? Boston, not yet on pitch with the Upper East Side, doesn't exactly offer a plethora of choices. While the antiquated MAC houses only traditional aerobics, Lowell House recently began a weekly yoga class. Yoga, though a floor-based exercise, incorporates much of the same philosophy as Pilates. Instructor Matthew Daniell stresses that regular yoga produces "a stronger, leaner, more flexible body." Local best bets for the real thing are Your Center Pilates Based Exercise and Wellbridge Health and Fitness Center, both located in Cambridge and offering Pilates-based exercise...