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...Still a frequent traveler, Turlington has figured out how to get yoga instruction on the road, usually in the Ashtanga style. "I find teachers wherever I go," she says, including when she was on trips last summer to Japan and Australia. She'll either go to a class, like at Brentwood's Maha Yoga when she's in L.A. (where the Ashtanga style is melded with popular music), or she'll arrange to have a teacher come to her hotel room...
...Jivamukti classes at first, in part because she's so frequently recognized. "It was fear, really," she says. "I didn't want to stand out." But celebrities are so common there, Turlington found, that she wasn't the object of undue attention, and that in fact, yoga teachings challenged that fear. "In yoga, you need to get beyond yourself. So I just went to the front row. It was the same thing when I went to NYU. I sat in the front row, very visible. And it was fine...
...going on in your life at the time, there's something you can apply it to. I'm a practicing Catholic, and it's the same thing at mass. I always learn something at Jivamukti; they really educate the students. Other places I've gone to are really Yoga Lite. They don't pay attention to the other branches of yoga...
...next to the Grunter, which would, I have to say, harsh my mellow. But in the spirit of the yogic tradition I choose not to view my exasperated state as a negative thing. Instead, I congratulate myself for my good judgment in getting to this yoga class on a Sunday morning at the godless hour...
...conscientious but nondenominational exerciser, and coming to Bikram (a.k.a. "Hot") Yoga began more as a scheduling convenience than devotion to its unvarying regimen of 26 poses (asanas), each performed twice and held for what can seem like forever over the course of the nearly two-hour class...