Yogi

Greco-Roman images of Apollo and deified Roman emperors with certain Indianized features, while Mathura artist portrayed him as a yogi with an idealized body” (147). Different images were created and though they mixed details the overall archetype was developed.“...stylistic variations and ethnic diversity notwithstanding, the image remained that of an elegantly serene, contemplative, yogi engaged in solitary meditation with unflinching concentration” (148). The timeline of Buddhist art…

got real scared at first – “Dear me! Killed?” But no, he was okay, just sleepy, and when he stirred Marilyn forgot all about me and poured on him all her affection and tenderness. I’ve got disgusted with it, went out of the doors and faced Lenin and yogi Purba on the porch. Lenin looked very tired, and he just nodded to me. But Purba’s eyes, when he saw me, suddenly widened in fright. “What happened to you?” he cried, and then held out his hand to my sore face and touched it gently. I…

1950s Sports Following WWII, many Americans enjoyed a thriving economy and access to a range of new time-saving technologies. “With more money to spend and an excess of leisure time, people turned to sports for recreation and entertainment.” (Sports in America in the 1950s) Baseball was paramount in America, but other sports competed for the nation’s attention. Boxing and Golf were also very popular to sports fans in America, Rocky Marciano went on his historical, undefeated run between…

wellness festival called the WigWam Wellness Fest. The festival took place at the Chattahoochee Nature Center and was centered around yoga and meditation, offering multiple classes and workshops through sessions throughout the day. I met many fellow yogis, some old friends and some new. The festival was made with the purpose of being kind of like a positive energy music festival. The “stages” were in nature on a pavilion, rooftop deck, garden, pond, hiking path, etc. The “acts” were wellness…

environmental issues in the Southland and beyond. My focus is the intersection between science, nature and technology with a twist of food of politics. My early bylines appeared in the Surfers Path and The Surfers Journal. I consider the surfer/seeker Jamail Yogis and the zero- waste advocate Rob Greenfield, among my friends and colleagues. Resources: https://missingmigrants.iom.int/…

Baseball…- a ball game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. It is played chiefly in the US, Canada, Latin America, and East Asia. (Dictionary.com) The only thing I’ve ever cared about though, it intrigued me from an extremely young age. Amidst the time when my brother and cousin played this mysterious game outside my grandma's house every other week. I’d sit and watch them throw the white baseball with red laces, outside next to an oak tree in…

doesn’t have to be told what to do even if it is the King telling her what to do, instead she stood her ground and refused the King’s offer, because she is not the person that can be told what to do and be expected to do that. When Jennifer was on the Yogi Baird show, she was supposed to answer calls from callers, but all of the callers were just asking her questions that was about Maltcassion, but Jennifer was quite mad because all they wanted her to do was to kill Maltcassion so that they can…

Meditation and Ayurveda Mind and meditation Meditation is the practice of training the individual mind to induce consciousness. It is the state of mind in which individual acknowledges the content i.e. memories of the past or ideas for the future without being identified with them. Once individual removes the limitation of the past and future he/she can achieve the balance of psychological, physical and emotional state. Dr. Joan Borysenko, leading researcher in the field termed meditation as…

struggling. Pi notes, "Actually, it was not so much the speed that was impressive as the pure animal confidence, the total absorption in the moment. Such a mix of ease and concentration, such a being-in-the-present, would be the envy of the highest yogis.” (Martel 230). Yoga is a very important part of Hinduism, “Yoga is a spiritual path, a form of discipline that enables a person to achieve oneness with the…

heated room. Bikram yoga combines these two types of yoga by offering a specific 26 pose sequence in a heated room reaching the temperature of 104 degree Fahrenheit and 40% humidity for ninety minutes. This technique, formulated by renowned Indian Yogi, Bikram Choudhury, aims to unify all areas of your body, both internal and…