Article: Yoga: A boom 30 years in the making.(The Seattle Times)

Byline: Richard Seven

Old-timers remember how, back in the day, sitting on a throw rug was a luxury. The road to self-discovery was meant to be a spartan, unsexy trip. When Marie Svoboda began teaching yoga in Seattle in 1969, hippies represented a healthy portion of her students. Between imparting the meaning behind the stretches and breathing she would bark at the students with what they fondly called "Marie-isms" like, "Don't sit there like a plum!"

Svoboda is believed to be the first person to put yoga under the "Y" in the Seattle Yellow Pages. Eventually, her clientele included opera singers, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a nuclear scientist. ...

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