 | Going to the Mats - By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL on 20120205
THE SCIENCE OF YOGA The Risks and the Rewards By William J. Broad Illustrated. 298 pp. Simon & Schuster. $26. In ''The Science of Yoga,'' William J. Broad brings something unusual to his subject: an open mind. Broad, the book's biographical note informs us, has practiced yoga since 1970. For nearly that long he has also been a science reporter for... |  | NOTICED; Social Satire As a Sustainable Career Move - By DAVID HOCHMAN on 20120122
ON a walk down Main Street in Santa Monica with David Wittman, everything suddenly looks like a kooky California cliché. The young women in Lululemon pants prancing into the raw-foods cafe. The guy with the ''Ask me about my divorce'' T-shirt. The ''coexist'' bumper sticker on the back of a Prius. It was while driving a Prius last spring that Mr.... |
| REPLY ALL | LETTERS; All Bent Out of Shape - on 20120122
I first heard about William Broad's debate-sparking article, ''How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,'' in yoga class on Saturday afternoon. As the class inhaled in an extended downward dog, the teacher asked if anyone had read the article. As we were guided into pigeon pose, the teacher offered this: ''The thing is,'' she told us, ''if you're mindful, you... | | The Quiet End of the Runway - By BOB MORRIS on 20120122
IT was a honey-gold morning in Tulum, Mexico, the low-rise, high-key ocean strip in the Yucatán 75 miles south of Cancún. While many visitors saluted the sun in various yoga poses along the white swatch of the Atlantic Ocean beach, Irene Albright and her daughter, Marina, stared at a computer screen in the open-air lobby of the Hotel Nueva Vida... |
 | All Bent Out Of Shape - By WILLIAM J. BROAD on 20120108
On a cold Saturday in early 2009, Glenn Black, a yoga teacher of nearly four decades, whose devoted clientele includes a number of celebrities and prominent gurus, was giving a master class at Sankalpah Yoga in Manhattan. Black is, in many ways, a classic yogi: he studied in Pune, India, at the institute founded by the legendary B. K. S. Iyengar,... |  | GLOBAL ATHLETE; Excusez-Moi, Parlez-Vous Yoga? - By JAN BENZEL on 20111217
PARIS -- When I moved to Paris from New York last year, about the first thing I did was seek out yoga. The city, job, language, food, telephone numbers, currency, even the way the milk was labeled: every element of my life from the most major to the tiniest details, had changed. Sure, it was thrilling, but it was also exhausting and humbling. At... |
| YOU'RE THE BOSS; Despite 2 Floods, Business Stays Put - By JOHN GROSSMANN on 20111215
Last week, we published a case study about two disaster-frazzled entrepreneurs seemingly in need of some of the calming supplemental holistic health services - yoga and massage - that they offer at Pulling Down the Moon, a Chicago business that was hit by two floods within a year. Because the entrepreneurs, Beth Heller and Tamara Quinn, linked... | | CASE STUDY; A Business Ponders Whether Its Location Is Perfect, or a Disaster - By JOHN GROSSMANN on 20111208
Pulling Down the Moon provides services like yoga classes, acupuncture, massage therapy and nutritional counseling to women undergoing fertility treatments. Based in Chicago, with satellite locations in Arlington Heights, Ill., and Rockville, Md., the nine-year-old company has grown to 35 employees with $1.3 million in annual revenue. THE CHALLENGE... |
 | STRETCH; New Pose On the Mat: The Sleuth - By MARY BILLARD on 20111204
THE mild-mannered woman on a mat wedged into a crowded yoga studio on the West Side of Manhattan on a recent Saturday was not who she seemed. Brette Popper was no ordinary yoga student who had carved out an hour and a half to get to class. She was the Yoga Sleuth, in hot pursuit of a tip, confirmed by several informants, that out of the multitudes... | | CITY ROOM; Saying He Owns His Moves, Yoga Guru Sues Competitor - By MEREDITH HOFFMAN on 20111202
Thursday's 11:30 a.m. session at the Bikram Yoga NYC studio in the Flatiron District began as usual: a handful of half-dressed students slowly flapped their elbows as they decelerated their breath and stared at themselves in the mirror. After paying $25 each, they began their mindful workouts in the 105-degree ''Torture Chamber,'' while outside on... |