Word: yoga
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...yoga is really about participating in and becoming part of a community. To earn money form Nuala is not really my interest. Yoga ties in with my antismoking work - which is all about raising consciousness and awareness. And I've had to represent so many things in my life, " says the Maybelline spokesperson and the face of Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume. "I don't have a problem representing yoga...
...Turlington has also signed on as an editor at large for Yoga Journal magazine, and has a contract with Hyperion to write a book about being a student of yoga - "kind of a 'Why Yoga'," she says - focused on all aspects of yoga, not just the hatha (physical) branch...
...Still a frequent traveler, Turlington has figured out how to get yoga instruction on the road, usually in the Ashtanga style. "I find teachers wherever I go," she says, including when she was on trips last summer to Japan and Australia. She'll either go to a class, like at Brentwood's Maha Yoga when she's in L.A. (where the Ashtanga style is melded with popular music), or she'll arrange to have a teacher come to her hotel room...
...Jivamukti classes at first, in part because she's so frequently recognized. "It was fear, really," she says. "I didn't want to stand out." But celebrities are so common there, Turlington found, that she wasn't the object of undue attention, and that in fact, yoga teachings challenged that fear. "In yoga, you need to get beyond yourself. So I just went to the front row. It was the same thing when I went to NYU. I sat in the front row, very visible. And it was fine...
...going on in your life at the time, there's something you can apply it to. I'm a practicing Catholic, and it's the same thing at mass. I always learn something at Jivamukti; they really educate the students. Other places I've gone to are really Yoga Lite. They don't pay attention to the other branches of yoga...