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Article: Body in Balance Local author touts mental benefits of yoga
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- May 5, 2005
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For Thia Luby, yoga is about balance.
A sense of inner balance. Balance between strength and
flexibility. Balancing life's many demands.
In nature, that balance already exists, with the four elements --
fire, earth, air and water. In her book "Yoga of Nature," Luby copies
nature, tying yoga poses to the four elements. Earth poses, for
example, are intended to make one grounded and energized. Water
poses, some patterned after creatures of the sea, promote moving in a
more fluid way.
"It's very easy to imitate things in nature with your body," Luby
says.
A blond, 95-pound wisp of a woman who looks younger than her 50
years, Luby has taught yoga since the late 1970s. After 30 years in
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