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...Most of yoga's devotees feel that the putative rewards of the exercises are worth the effort. Others may get something less than nirvana for their troubles. Dr. Joseph Chusid, a neurologist, told the A.M.A. Journal that sitting on the heels can damage the lower leg's peroneal nerve and lead to a complaint that he calls yoga foot drop...
...treat a 22-year-old college student who had been experiencing increasing difficulty walking, running and climbing stairs. An examination failed to uncover the origin of the student's inability to control a drooping tendency in both feet. But conversation did. The youth, a recent convert to yoga, told Chusid that he often sat on his heels for periods of up to six hours while chanting. The position placed great pressure on the peroneal nerve, which winds about the head of the fibula (outer leg bone) just below the knee. After the youth agreed to do his chanting while...
...alpha machine is still a long way from becoming Walker Percy's "lapsometer," which allowed Dr. Thomas More in Love in the Ruins to probe people's minds. But research is too new for anyone to claim that alpha training is a shortcut to nirvana. Electronic yoga remains a faddist's dream...
...pollution by package tour." More than the usual thousands of Continental Europeans are making plans to flee their own cities this summer to avoid the youthful crush. Elderly strollers in Munich's English Gardens glower at barefoot Brooklyn musicians standing on their heads with feet intertwined or sitting yoga-style, with begging bowls in outstretched hands. The Greek Orthodox Church in Athens has adopted a new prayer entitled "For Those Endangered by the Touristic Wave." The words: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on the cities, the islands and the villages of our Orthodox Fatherland, as well...
...late '50's, Acharya (a title meaning "spiritual teacher") Prasad was an Indian student radical, and he reacted scornfully when a friend suggested that he come to a lecture on yoga. But he went, and much to his surprise, found a yogi talking about social interaction and the necessity to transform society. He learned that the man was in Ananda Marga, joined the organization himself, and soon began "whole-timer" training. But in 1962, at the request of the Guru of Ananda Marga, Shrii P. R. Sarkar, Prasad left whole-timer training, got married, and continued his education...