(n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(2) Photograph: Rex Features 'Voga' Vogueing + yoga, apparently.
(3) Our team of reporters have spent the last week on an intensive bikram yoga course in order to get themselves into the rather awkward position of having their ears to the ground, their eyes to the skies and their fingers on the pulse.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On the Mat yoga pant by lulelemon.
(5) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
(6) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
(7) When I lived in New York, my local yoga centre would advocate veganism in terms I hadn't heard since I last went to synagogue ("godly") or spoke regularly to anorexics ("clean", "pure").
(8) I had jewellery, so I pawned all that, and I taught yoga – that paid the school fees.
(9) Within Jakarta itself the BRT is quite good,” says Yoga.
(10) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
(11) His comments won him fans described as “Medvedev’s Girls”, who performed exercises on Red Square to promote yoga.
(12) This study examines the lifestyle and social structure of a yoga ashram and describes how they facilitate processes where residents learn to release and prevent stress in their lives.
(13) Millions of Indians tune in every day to watch Ramdev perform yoga exercises on his popular TV show.
(14) A review of the clinical evidence available indicates that yoga practice has proven most effective with a wide range of psychosomatic and psychiatric disorders.
(15) It’s not a strange side effect of Brexit malaise – it’s World Yoga Day.
(16) Thus, a combined practice of yoga seems to be beneficial on respiratory efficiency.
(17) Edward likes … yoga bag, around £20, from Brogamats .
(18) Many Muslim scholars say that yoga is against the fundamental tenets of Islam – to pray to the sun, for example,” said Asaduddin Owaisi, a Muslim member of parliament.
(19) I suggest to the swami that her form of yoga is a religion, but she rejects the term.
(20) The 27-year-old described how the couple had a quiet evening and retired to his bedroom, where he spoke to his cousin on the phone and she did yoga.
Yogi
Definition:
(n.) A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yogi Breisner, performance manager for the British eventing team, said: "It is a real shame that it has been called off, especially in an Olympic year when a lot of the riders and horses would have been on show.
(2) The white hotel has 144 rooms for beach lovers, surfers, divers, trail runners, yogis and spa-toners.
(3) · More than 5 million people around the world - and almost 200,000 in the UK - have learned the technique since it was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1957.
(4) As Yogi Berra once said, making predictions is hard, particularly when you’re talking about the future.
(5) The police chief at Jomsom, Harihari Yogi, said they had reports from local villagers of hearing a loud explosion near the small village of Rupshe and attempts were being made to reach it.
(6) It was created by Indian yogi Bikram Choudhury in the early 1970s.
(7) Well no matter, here are five muses of the modern yogi and how to dress like them.
(8) Claeys and Gones (Belgium) proved that overall global relaxation, as well as differential relaxation were far more effective and deep when obtained by yogis than those attempted by University students majoring in Physical Education.
(9) Famous for their six-month teacher-training course – which requires the completion of a year-long correspondence course before you’re even eligible to apply, and to which only 10 students per year are accepted – this is not for the casual yogi, but, for the bold, the rewards are abundant, with a depth and breadth of teaching that’s remarkable.
(10) I'm no yogi – I do it once a week instead of the recommended five or six – but the setting and ethos of Ecoyoga appealed, as did the fact that I could take my two-year-old son Ossian, who would be looked after, along with three other young children, during morning yoga sessions.
(11) He conceded that his mother had gone a little off the rails towards the end of her life by taking up with swamis and yogis and consulting astrologers (she had premonitions, correctly, of a violent death), but she had brought him up to be agnostic and "secular", a word that in India has to bear too much hope.
(12) My dreams of transforming him into a full-time yogi are proved somewhat ambitious.
(13) For the really dedicated yogi, Villa Mandala (one of Surf Maroc’s other three properties) offers a more yoga focused retreat, with three-and-a-half hours of classes a day.
(14) When Joe Barbera the animator for Hanna-Barbera (the animation studio that created the likes of Tom and Jerry, the Flintstones and Yogi Bear) stayed at the Mark Twain in 1937 he described it as an “enlightened penitentiary.” Today it maintains its reputation as a low rent motel for struggling actors but during the 1940s and 1950s it offered relatively safe boarding for black people, who had few other options.
(15) It wants to franchise 70 crown offices to the likes of WH Smith and Yogi Eyecare.
(16) Little did they know that all the coolest, on-trend narcissists had already moved on to " yogis " (yoga + selfie) and " belfies " (bum + selfie), leading us to wonder exactly where self-absorption has to go from here.
(17) At the conclusion of a long study on sportsmen of both average and highly competitive ability, and on yogis, the author was able, by means of a simple methodology applicable to all physical activity, to classify the principal sports into two categories: those which improve and those which work against the peripheral venous circulation.
(18) It has also been laid at the doorstep of Hollywood's Sam Goldwyn, baseball player Yogi Berra, and Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962).
(19) Most look like serious surfers but we do spot a few dedicated yogis in floaty pants and flip flops.
(20) Think about what you want too – some combine yoga with other activities (maybe good for those with non-yogi partners), some are vegan, some don’t ban booze – it’s always worth asking before you book.