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...well, nothing seems to be bordering on the plain loopy. Yet southern Thailand is becoming a hub for a growing number of professionals whose guilty affluence and/or search for the soulful drive them to seek a week or two of deprivation. On offer is bare-board living: fasting, yoga, meditation and?the ultimate in purification?twice daily cleansing of the colon...
...Samui's least-developed beach, Ao Thong, the Samui Dharma Healing Center offers a personalized, no-frills holistic fast. For $300 a week, American owner Hillary Hitt and husband Greg give one-on-one and group counseling sessions as well as classes on nutrition, meditation and yoga to a maximum of 18 participants. "Cleansing is a journey, a deep spiritual experience. You need a teacher and you need support," says Hitt. A lot of it, in fact. In the first few days of fasting, guests can expect "nausea, dizziness, headaches, exhaustion, heaviness, bloating and moods of anger, depression, fear, sadness...
...Yoga might not seem to be related to squash, but if you ask the Harvard men's squash team, the two are directly intertwined...
School officials credit their success in part to their 97% average attendance rate, which in turn is boosted by classes that emphasize art, poetry and yoga along with arithmetic and grammar. "Unless you're fully engaging the mind and body of the children, they're not going to be as productive," says Kevin Sved, 34, the school's co-founder. Accelerated says it outperformed the community's other public schools by 270% on last year's standardized tests. "It's like a $20,000 private school without the tuition," says Mario Ortega, 37, a mortgage banker who transferred...
...someone who has practiced yoga 60 minutes a day for 10 years, I can tell you that yoga prepares you for what is ahead. It builds a mind-set to accept things and look for patience and comfort amid the daily pains all of us go through. It gradually changes you. It does not teach you to relax for those 45 minutes a day. It does not tell you to take things easy. It makes things easy to face and accept. Yoga could bring the entire healthcare industry to its knees. SAMPATH RENGACHARI Southfield, Mich...