Doing Yoga To Stay Healthy

Yoga is an ancient proven tradition that exists for thousands of years and also one of the most ancient cultural heritages in India. The word yoga means, "to unite". But it does not only mean contemplation but also communion and yoking all powers of the body, mind and soul to God. It is a very ancient and efficient system of disciplines and controls designed to produce the integration of the body, mind and spirit. It also achieves higher states of awareness and self-realization by methodical efforts to attain perfection. Even at the workplace, yoga has become extremely popular in many companies, worldwide. Working eight hours a day, five to seven days a week is really stressing. And yoga can just be the answer to this. Yoga reduces stress. It improves flexibility and muscle tone, increases circulation, relieves chronic pain and alleviates anxiety-related disorders. Best of all, it cultivates physical awareness, refreshes your energy, and offers a little vacation from the everyday grind.

There are seven divisions of yoga. Hatha yoga is concerned primarily with the body and the asanas. Bhakti yoga focuses on the path of love and devotion. Mantra yoga has something to do with recitation and repetition of words and verses. Karma yoga is a service through action and work. Janan yoga is on the intellectual path. Raja yoga is a synthesis of Bhakti, Karma, and Janan. And Laya yoga is the secret path or known as the "Yoga of Dissolution". 

Salma Hayek's Hacked Emails Reveal Celebrity's Quotidian Existence

Hackers have broken into Salma Hayek's email, revealing the actress's iPhone-app obsession, designer-clothes habit, travel plans, and more. (Her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, who's throwing a second wedding for her this weekend, pays the bill!)

Unlike with Sarah Palin's emails, there's not really a public-spirited reason to post the screenshots the hackers took, except, of course, pure voyeurism. The detail-by-detail, appointment-by-appointment depiction of the lifestyle of a rich and famous actress is all engrossing stuff for the masses (and for us). And yet it feels oddly unsatisfying — the same drip, drip, drip of minutiae that the Internet famous overshare on blogs and Twitter.

Screenshots of the shayek@mac.com email account, released by habitués of the online bulletin board 4chan, appear to be authentic. Breaking into the account was a simple matter of knowing Hayek's birthday — September 2 — and guessing at her security word (they claim it was the name of her best known movie role) to reset the account's password. Public-records searches show that the 323-area-code phone number Hayek listed in a sent email belongs to the actress. A spokeswoman for Hayek has not returned a call requesting comment.

The glimpses into Hayek's life revealed by her inbox are fascinating, even if mundane: The stranger-suckling actress has been invited to America Ferreira's 25th birthday party. She downloads a bunch of iPhone applications from the iTunes App Store — and she gets spam from Apple, just like the rest of us. As for the perks of being famous, a driver was scheduled to meet her flight arriving in Abu Dhabi. American Express has given her a new Gold card. (What, she doesn't rate the exclusive black Centurion Card?) Balenciaga and Stella McCartney deliver designer clothes to her apartment. She schedules "Japanese face massages." And she gets scans of stories about her in the celebrity weeklies.

Week of "Twilight" and new cute car

"New Moon" footage arises, a (almost) huggable car hits the road, politicians squabble more than usual, and mixed martial arts fans get angry.... From a busy seven days, take a look at the latest in the Buzz Week in Review.

Adorable Car or iPod Accessory?
A car so cute, people would pinch its cheeks if it had any. Chrysler may be hurtling towardssalvation or oblivion, but the automaker pushed out the Peapod in time for Earth Day. The itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, electric four-seater is made from recycled materials, measures 56.5 by 70.5 inches, and goes about 25 mph. The big selling point may be its iPod/iPhone compatibility: Dock the Apple product to start up the engine and navigate. The car should hit lots this fall with a$12,500 sticker price, but let's talk to the manager first.

Moonlight Madness 
About the only thing that could inflate "Twilight" hysteria anymore would be to have Susan Boyle sing in a film. But while we pondered such possibilities, the Buzz went into a froth over fresh news over "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" (due out Nov. 20). That included latest pics ofthe buffed-up, vampire-fighting Wolf Pack (whose regimen may be the new "300" workout for actors) and a visit to the set. And the cup truly runneth over: "30 Days of Night" director David Slade takes the helm of the third film, set for release on June 30, 2010.

Mixed Martial Reviews
Middleweight Anderson Silva scored his ninth consecutive victory in the Octagon, but the UFC first instead left spectators booing about the lackluster dominance over loser Thales Leites. Even UFC president Dana White said he was "embarrassed." Fellow fighter Chuck "Iceman" Lidell blamed a lame opponent, but the masses had paid $4.9 million for blood—or at least a good knockout. Silva so far remains unrepentant about his "technical" professionalism, but the fix could be in to send Silva to Canada and fight champ Georges St. Pierre. Or just to exile.

Political Backtalk
Exchanges among world leaders turned particularly testy this week, starting with former veepDick Cheney when he defended interrogations outlined in newly released CIA memos. In Geneva, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments about Israel prompted diplomats to walk out of a U.N. conference against racism. Then, Fidel Castro published an essay declaring President Barack Obama had "misinterpreted" his brother Raul's statements at the Summit of the Americas. All this, of course, engendered more backtalk amongst parties involved, but perhaps the most cutting came from maverick-in-training Meghan McCain, who told Cheney to "go away." At least she didn't call him creepy.