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There are sunbathers and readers and yoga-doers basking on the lawn of City Hall, the only good green space on Mass. Ave. for quite a stretch. There are people speaking Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, new immigrants and old, homeless and fortune-seekers, yuppies and yippies...
There are few people I'd be inclined to join on a voyage of self-discovery. Fewer still if I knew that journey was heading for an existential train wreck. And in the first few pages of Geoff Dyer's Yoga for People Who Can't be Bothered to Do It, the warning signs that I am entering an author's exercise in angst-ridden navel gazing are all there. A quote by Nietzsche on the fly page. A preface that starts with a snippet from Auden and ends with a disclaimer: "Everything in this book really happened, but some...
...Many travel books use a quest to shape the narrative, and Yoga is no exception. The author is searching for the mythical Zone of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 postapocalyptic film, Stalker, a place where, Dyer says, "Everyone can become whatever they want to be." As both author and central character of his "somewhat fictionalized" travelogue, Dyer can likewise choose an identity. But instead of striking a heroic pose, he portrays himself as a hapless failure, someone who is always wishing to do something?hop a freight train, ask a woman out, adopt a child in Goa?but never follows through...
MARRIED. Actor-director EDWARD BURNS, 35, and supermodel CHRISTY TURLINGTON, 34; in San Francisco. Burns, who arrived on the scene in 1995 with his film The Brothers McMullen, wed yoga entrepreneur and antismoking activist Turlington after a tabloid-chronicled courtship of 2 1/2 years...
...babies aren't doing strict yoga poses. It's difficult enough for adults to master such exotic positions as the Downward-Facing Dog, let alone kids who are still learning to roll over or sit up. Instead they are led through yoga-influenced stimulation exercises, massage, games and a variety of rocking and balancing exercises, accompanied by their moms, who get into postpartum shape by doing more traditional poses. According to DeAnsin Goodson Parker, a child psychologist and author of Yoga Baby, parent-child yoga classes provide special "relating time" between child and parent. Yoga also stimulates the immune...