"The Man Who Studied Yoga", a novella by Norman Mailer written in 1952, was first published in the 1956 collection New Short Novels 2 then later in Mailer's...
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life, but surrenders to it, perhaps making him the object of Mailer's derision. "The Man Who Studied Yoga" is perhaps Mailer's sole excursion into middle-class...
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Ashtanga vinyasa yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of...
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The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtras) is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga – 195 sutras...
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(who wrote the first commentary on the Yoga Sutras) says that yoga means samadhi (concentration). A person who practices yoga, or follows the yoga philosophy...
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Norman Mailer (redirect from On the Steps of the Pentagon)
obituary in The Independent, his "relentless machismo seemed out of place in a man who was actually quite small – though perhaps that was where the aggression...
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Asana (redirect from Yoga posture)
hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses. The Yoga Sutras...
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pieces in the book, which are: The Man Who Studied Yoga, "The White Negro", "The Time of Her Time", "Dead Ends", and "Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out"...
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Random House editor, was the organizer. Critic Anatole Broyard, who reviewed the book in 1981, declared that the best segments of the book were Abbott's letters...
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Stabbing of Adele Morales (category 1960 crimes in the United States)
mental institution. I'm a sane man. If this happens, for the rest of my life, my work will be considered as the work of a man with a disordered mind". Though...
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At that point, the book really begins. It details the life of a CIA intelligence officer who has connections to the highest levels of the CIA. It raises...
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in any of the older traditions of yoga; posture practice was revived in the 1920s by yoga gurus including Yogendra and Kuvalayananda, who emphasised...
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Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (redirect from Krishnamacharya's yoga)
yoga teacher, ayurvedic healer and scholar. He is seen as one of the most important gurus of modern yoga, and is often called "Father of Modern Yoga"...
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and the screenplay was adapted from Schiller's book, American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense, by novelist Norman Mailer, who had...
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become a tough-talking television commentator who strongly criticizes the police's inability to put an end to the criminal activities of Ganucci, an organized-crime...
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brought in Jack Arnold to finish the picture. I shot all the footage with Richard Basehart, Catherine Hicks and John Ireland, who was terrific as director John...
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in a course of Tibetan yoga taught by Pedro Espinosa de los Monteros, who became his spiritual teacher. The course, called "The Science of MentalPhysics"...
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Sivananda Saraswati (redirect from Yoga of Synthesis)
the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy in 1948. He called his yoga the Yoga of Synthesis, combining the Four Yogas of Hinduism (Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana...
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Sri Aurobindo (redirect from The Synthesis of Yoga)
The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice, Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, Wisconsin ISBN 0-941524-76-0 The Future Evolution of Man...
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Samkhya (redirect from Samkhya yoga)
systematization in the early first millennium CE, the existence of a deity became irrelevant. Samkhya is strongly related to the Yoga school of Hinduism...
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Francis Delia (section The Bruthers)
including "Che" (Davis-Panzer, 2004), adapting Mailer short novel, "The Man Who Studied Yoga" (2006, attached as director); co-exec-producer (uncredited writer)...
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Tantra (redirect from Tantric Yoga)
2:48-53, including: "Yoga is skill in [the performance of] actions." The Keśin hymn of the Rig Veda (10.136) describes the "wild loner" who, states Karel Werner...
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Bhagavad Gita (redirect from Anasakti Yoga)
Karma yoga leads to Bhakti yoga, which in turn leads to Jnana yoga: Chapters 1–6 = Karma yoga, the means to the final goal Chapters 7–12 = Bhakti yoga or...
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ISBN 9780809303878. OCLC 977535620. Lucid, Robert F., ed. (1971). Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work. Boston: Little Brown. OCLC 902036360. Braudy, Leo, ed. (1972)...
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Yajnavalkya (section On the light of man)
him include the Yajnavalkya Smriti, Yoga Yajnavalkya and some texts of the Vedanta school. He is also mentioned in the Mahabharata as well as various Puranas...
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century) was a philosopher disciple of Abhinavagupta, who was considered a master of tantra, yoga, poetics, and dramaturgy. Not much is known of Kṣemarāja's...
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Norman Mailer Prize (redirect from The Norman Mailer Prize)
The Norman Mailer Prize or Mailer Prize is an American literary award established in 2009 by The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony...
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Oswald's Tale (category Non-fiction books about the assassination of John F. Kennedy)
and motivations. The Oswald that Mailer depicts is a single-minded and vain individual convinced of his own destiny and importance who suffers a series...
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he stabbed her in the back. As she lay there, hemorrhaging, one man reached down to help her. He snapped: "Get away from her. Let the bitch die." He was...
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