Monday, March 5, 2012

YOGA IS FASHIONING ITS MANTRA INTO ACTIVE WEAR BY TRACY ACHOR HAYES THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS.(LIFE & LEISURE)

When Johnny Depp remodeled Sunset Strip's Viper Room last January, the $200-a-ticket sellout celebration was a benefit not for drug abuse or Kosovo, but a Los Angeles yoga studio. Gurmukh Kaur, the Center for Living's white-turbaned founder, arrived by limo -- in a blaze of camera strobes -- with one of her students, singer Courtney Love.

``What she does is kundalini yoga,'' Love told a reporter covering the bash for fashion-bible Women's Wear Daily. ``It's better for me than Prozac -- and the clothes are nice, too.''

Love is hardly the only celebrity singing the praises of yoga -- or helping to catapult the 5,000-year-old practice onto the cutting edge.

Madonna has become the well-muscled poster child for vigorous ashtanga, or power yoga. The Aug. 5 cover of Rolling Stone features …

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