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LA-HEAVEN TO EARTH JYOTISH FORECAST By BETHEYLA
BOOK REVIEWS
Yoga Awakening the Inner Body
By Donald Moyer
Gentle Birth Choices
by Barbara Harper RN
The Language
of Ayurveda
by Nicolai Bachman
Power, Passion and Purpose 7 Steps to Energizing Your Life
By Ann Nichols Roulac
Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga
By Richard Miller, Ph.D.
Reviews by Julie Deife, Felicia M. Tomasko & Marie Black
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Plus DVD reviews, Yogi Food, Workshop Reports, Op Ed, Letters to the Editor, Ayurveda Pages, Practice Pages and more.
Sitting Down With: Deepak Chopra
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June 2006
Volume 5/Number 4
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SPECIAL SECTION:
JOURNEY TO AYURVEDA
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Media stories this spring have heralded the rise of a new India, the India with nuclear arms, oil deals with China and mango deals with the U.S., gigantic new dams and road-building projects that’s keeping international businesses such as Citibank, H&R Block, Dell and Microsoft plus a host of smaller foreign businesses who outsource services, humming profitably along.
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A New Breed of Yoga Teacher
for the Land of Yoga:
By Julie Deife
Yoga is a gargantuan concept in India and its symbols are everywhere. OM is painted on outside walls and the doorways of homes and businesses. Even OM adorned wooden garbage carts pulled by bulls or buses that share the same streets shout yoga. Incense scented air originates as often from a call center office building as from a roadside shop’s altar. In conversation, westerners and Indians alike specify what kind of yoga is being referred to, in order to simply communicate.
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AYURVEDA Q&A:
By Dr. Jay Apte
Ayurveda has been practiced in the U.S. only about 25 years, yet it is the 5000 year old Indian system of medicine and yoga's sister science. Readers are invited to submit questions for "Ayurveda Q & A" to ayurveda@layogamagazine.com
Q: My husband is an obsessive nail biter! He tried hard to stop but it’s occurred to me over the years that he somehow needs to eat his nails. Can this be true and what Ayurveda cause/solution would you suggest? He also has an incurable fungus on his toenails and now on a few fingernails. My husband is a kapha/pitta.
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Nail biting is mostly a sign of anxiety and nervousness - it is mainly a vata disorder.
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Sitting Down With: John Abbott
By Julie Deife
From Spanish and French language interpreter for the State Department, to international investment banker, to owner and president of the Yoga Journal magazine, the world’s largest yoga magazine….how does that happen? What is the motivation? Sitting down with John Abbott to learn what makes him tick, a softer side than that of powerful Type – A corporate executive emerges. Yet…(not nyet, although the Yoga Journal publishes in Russian, too, these days, as well as Spanish and Italian) the drive and love of different cultures is still evident - just influenced by the practice.
Julie: In your eight-year tenure at the helm of the Yoga Journal, what are the most significant changes you’ve seen in the yoga world?
John: The yoga community and the number of people participating in yoga have grown and, along with it, an industry that has gone through a great deal of growth and development since the mid-90s has been born.
It was an industry in the early to mid-90s characterized by people like Sara Chambers, the founder of Hugger Mugger - mom and pop businesses - and now we have people like Nike who are highly invested in yoga.
Yoga has become accepted and attractive in our publicity driven, commercial society.
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Teacher Profile:
Tim Miller
By Devlin Smith
Tim Miller describes himself as “shy.” This is an assessment that might surprise the students who have been flocking to his ashtanga classes for more than two decades. A better word for Tim is “serene.” An intellectual man as well, Miller seems at total ease discussing the philosophy behind ashtanga as he leads his classes through sun salutations and warrior poses, sharing as he goes his passion for the practice.
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