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...Yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates. Yoga is an ancient Indian discipline that links stretching exercises, breathing and meditation through the repetition of a series of poses, or asanas. Tai Chi is a slow-motion Chinese martial art designed to increase the chi, or life energy. Pilates is a muscle- lengthening program developed in Germany in the 1920s...
...TRENDS Yoga vacations, retreats and cruises are popular, and yoga clothing lines are big sellers for such athletic labels as Nike and Adidas. Pilates classes continue to fill up at health clubs, and folks can even compete to be top yogi in national and international contests...
Sources: Donna Rubin, yoga instructor, BikramYoga NYC Studios; Paula Tett, corporate education manager, Sports Club/LA; The Everything Total Fitness Book, by Ellen Karpay; Getting in Shape, by Carol Dannhauser and Sandra Warren
...week) in Bryn Mawr, Pa. She asserts that even though the male and female campers have the option of the occasional pedicure or facial, they spend the majority of their time exercising, working with personal trainers, learning about proper nutrition and getting serene through meditation and yoga. Says Mimi Klein of Sarasota, Fla., whose daughter Allison, 15, is heading back this summer for the second time: "I felt pretty strongly that it was important for a teenage girl to have a strong sense of self and understand how to take care of her body and mind as she went into...
...most of the prerequisites: a kid who has left the nest for college, 25 years at the same company, hot flashes and an outdated hairstyle. The problem is, I can't quite squeeze it in. I've got this 11-year-old daughter who, while quite tolerant of my yoga habit, just might go off the rails if I indulge my yen for a six-month retreat at an ashram in Kerala. Then there's the college-tuition bill. Do you think Skidmore would cook up an emergency scholarship for my son if my contribution to the family income suddenly...