Word: yoga
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...snowing people into believing you're being nice to them when really you just want to coax them back to the mill. But employees at SAS aren't that jaded. Maybe it's the free M&Ms, the twice-weekly, on-site discounted car detailing, the art classes, the yoga and the in-house artist. Or maybe everyone just drank the Kool-Aid. But the employees genuinely talk about having fun at work. "If I want M&Ms, I can go to the store," notes Oliver Schabenberger, a software developer. What he values, rather, is a culture that gives...
KIRTAN RAISING: An antiphonal form of yoga gets an American accent and fills small arenas...
This appeal to American sensibilities seems to be connecting with audiences eager for spiritual experiences. At a kirtan at the Moksha Yoga Center in Chicago, musicians played mandolin and acoustic guitar. An altar was set up with candles, fruit and a picture of Jimi Hendrix, who did not practice kirtan but, according to chant leader Debi Buzil, "embodies the music and embraced God." The chants' Sanskrit lyrics were projected on the wall via Powerpoint. When Moksha held its first kirtans four years ago, 10 people would show up; today the sessions regularly draw 80. "This is the most happy-producing...
Wendt says that when he chants, "the stress melts in my body and I feel this opening in my heart." But whether he is actually practicing kirtan is a matter of debate. Georg Feuerstein, founder of the Yoga Research and Education Center near Redding, Calif., says kirtan is an exclusively Hindu practice in which believers praise gods to whom they are devoted. He contends that although non-Hindus or those who do not understand what they are chanting may experience a quasi-religious feeling, "the traditionalist would want to know why divine Hindu names are being used for that purpose...
...itself as "Bangkok's first truly contemporary hotel." By that you can expect the whole dark wood, Zen-grotto aesthetic so beloved of modern designers, as well as somber staff uniforms devised by fashion's dark prince, Yohji Yamamoto. Other au courant knickknacks include Shambhala bathroom amenities and a yoga mat in every room, should you feel like performing an invigorating sun salutation before breakfast...