Word: yoga
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interested in cleaning my body on a deeper level. Yoga really purifies your organs and blood. You feel that. You feel that circulation of energy. But the real lesson yoga gives you is learning how to be present...
...Even though Turlington studies all six branches of yoga (and views her charity work and anti-smoking activism as seva - "service," an aspect of Karma Yoga), she's not critical of the popular exercise-oriented yoga boom, other than to worry some about the lack of standardization among teachers...
...yoga isn't always the healthiest thing. I talk to so many people who say they've hurt themselves in a class and will never go back...
...have friends who simply want to have a yoga butt. And there is such a thing. They're just interested in the kind of body they're going to have, although not everybody's going to have a Madonna body. I've been to lots of yoga classes, and there are a lot of different kinds of yoga bodies. I'm amazed at the strength and suppleness I see that some people have underneath very voluptuous shells...
...Turlington doesn't dispute yoga's physical benefits. She's done weight training, but found it boring and also that it prompted a different result. "Yoga's a different kind of strength, because everything is about elongating and strengthening from the core...