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...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...
...interested in cleaning my body on a deeper level. Yoga really purifies your organs and blood. You feel that. You feel that circulation of energy. But the real lesson yoga gives you is learning how to be present...
...Even though Turlington studies all six branches of yoga (and views her charity work and anti-smoking activism as seva - "service," an aspect of Karma Yoga), she's not critical of the popular exercise-oriented yoga boom, other than to worry some about the lack of standardization among teachers...