Word: yoga
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...with various training methods and diets that have not only enhanced her sailing but her well-being. In the beginning, she says, the driving force for knowledge and training was always to peak at Olympics time; now, as she contemplates life away from competition, the lessons she learns from yoga, for instance, are incorporated into her everyday existence. While age has brought her calm, all but removing the fear of failure that pervaded her 20s, it has made Kendall's body more vulnerable: now she needs to work harder at keeping muscles and joints in tune. "If I have something...
...spoils of war" to Achilles, Byrne acquits herself commendably in the film's only fully fleshed female role (in contrast, Diane Kruger's Helen of Troy parades around like some kind of supermodel, which in fact Kruger was). As for Byrne's love scene with Pitt, nine years of yoga helped with any performance anxiety she might have felt. "It's really important to try and come from a place of relaxation," she explains, "because only if you're relaxed will you be able to perform at your highest peak...
...acting, as in my yoga, every nuance, every detail and gesture is the subject of my focus. I'm always paying careful attention, like a pianist, and translate that attention into my performance. Iyengar knows what the body needs, and he's introduced to the West the Easterner's best path to health and well-being. --By MICHAEL RICHARDS, actor
...still teaches at the institute in Pune, India, that he founded in 1973. He taught his first class in 1936, but it wasn't until he struck up a lifelong friendship with violinist Yehudi Menuhin that Iyengar brought his teachings to the West. His 1966 book Light on Yoga--with 300 pages of instruction and photographs of postures, or asanas--introduced yoga to people around the globe. Aficionados founded Iyengar groups in the U.S. as early as 1974 and slowly fed what has become mainstream Western acceptance of a 3,000-year-old Indian tradition...
Iyengar teaches practitioners to lavish attention on the body. The goal is to tie the mind to the breath and the body, not to an idea. His philosophy is Eastern, but his vision is universalist. You can incorporate Iyengar into your life and yoga practice--but ultimately we're Westerners on Western soil...