Word: yoga
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Christy Turlington is a serious student of yoga in all its physical, spiritual and intellectual aspects. She practices at home three mornings a week (hard to do, she says, since she's not a morning person), and tries to take at least two classes a week...
...When she's in New York, where she lives in a lovely, tasteful townhouse in the West Village, she goes to the celebrity-studded Jivamukti Yoga Center. Owners Sharon Gannon and David Life teach an eclectic style of yoga, described on the center's web site as "a vigorous physical practice with equally strong foundation in the ancient Yogic texts...
...Turlington, now 32, took up yoga at the age of 18. A friend in San Francisco took her to a Kundalini yoga class, where she was impressed with the discipline the practice required. Within a year, she attended the annual Kundalini summer solstice celebration in New Mexico...
...Once she hunkered down to become more serious, she was grateful for yoga's help through some very tough times in her late 20s. She was in school as an older, much-watched student; she'd stopped the intensive modeling schedule she'd had for 11 years; and her father (in California, where she grew up) was diagnosed with lung cancer and had only six months to live...
...daily, insisting they submit vacation schedules as proof that they are headed for the BarcaLounger. The forced march has turned some victims downright mawkish. "It's wonderful," says press secretary ARI FLEISCHER, who will attend the New York Yankees' opening day. "It's human. It's normal." Next: enforced yoga...