• "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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    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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    Sadhguru (redirect from Isha Yoga)
    guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India. The foundation, established in 1992, operates an ashram and yoga centre that carries...
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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Larry Schultz (redirect from Rocket Yoga)
    American yoga teacher who was a long-time student of the founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, K. Pattabhi Jois. Schultz is primarily recognized as the creator...
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