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...this Age of the Blahs, many thousands of Americans are finding a new way to assuage money worries, insomnia, angst, neuroticism and neglect of liver and lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer...
...February, 750 scientists, the second biggest crowd of the meeting, turned out to hear Dr. Robert Ornstein, 32, discourse on the "psychology of consciousness." For Ornstein, a researcher at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco, crowds are nothing new. Not only scientists but philosophy students and yoga practitioners are drawn to hear him because of his venturesome effort to reunite science and spirit, reason and intuition...
...negativity. I am positivity. When they hate, I love. I send out waves of love to them. I pray for them. They hate me so much they can't eat and they can't sleep. But I laugh, I play tennis, I play cricket, I do yoga exercises, I dance, and I am happy inside. Very happy." Patting his flat stomach and flexing his muscles, he added: "And I am strong inside...
...appearance in the U.S. to Jacobs' wife Eleanor, who first came across them in a small Copenhagen shop. "I tried them on and immediately my sore back felt better," she says. That discovery led the Jacobses to track down the shoe's designer, Anne KalsØ, a yoga teacher who had for years observed the effects of shoes on posture. On a trip to South America she confirmed a favorite theory: lower heels mean better carriage. The Brazilian Indians, she decided, owed their erect stance to long years of sinking barefoot heels into soft terrain. Returning to Denmark...
...Later he opened four more and awarded dealerships to 35 other owners, 20 of them in the past year. "It's not just a business, it's a life-style," explains Eleanor Jacobs. "Most of our shop owners, as well as customers, are into things like yoga and vegetarian eating." They are also totally into their strange footwear. "When I got married last weekend," confesses Albie Sikirdji, a Bronx student, "I wore my Earth Shoes...