Obviously, there was no redesign time this weekend. As for the clamor for photographs, I was trying to get away with no pictures, but I guess one should be forthcoming.A friend sent email earlier referring to “centering” as a new-age cliche. That got me thinking about somenthing my yoga teacher Mary said at our first teacher training class: Yoga is not new age. I got out the book Centering (M.C. Richards, 1962) that I stole from my former stepmother many years ago, returned, and then finally found at a used book store. It’s pretty much the center of centering as a concept in popular culture (I think). I opened to this section (underlined by previous owner Ann Paley):
The fact I want to stress here is that one’s inner life, one’s spirit, is as specific, as palpable and material, as the shape of one’s hair.
There are no coincidences.
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“Yoga is not new age.” Is that because it’s old? Or something else about it?
New agers (back when the term hadn’t been orphaned as a cliche) would of course have claimed that their new age embodied many ancient things.
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