Moksha Yoga is a form of hot yoga that is ideal for the yoga beginner as well as the seasoned practitioner. Every Moksha Yoga class takes you through a series of strengthening and toning postures in the detoxifying calm of a heated studio. There are Moksha Yoga studios across Canada and abroad.
The Barkan Method is a style of Hatha Yoga that originated from a lineage in Calcutta, India. The Barkan Method finds its roots from this lineage in Calcutta, but also integrates postures from other styles of Yoga to create variations and even greater range of motion. The yoga classes are practiced in a heated room to stretch and strengthen various areas of the body. The practice brings vital balance and restores all systems to optimal health. Consistency will create a physical, mental and spiritual harmony that will be felt in all areas of the practitioner's life.
Samantha Chang, Celebrity Fitness and Health Examiner
November 13, 2011
Actor George Clooney has an Academy Award, a long line of beautiful girlfriends and fame and fortune beyond his wildest dreams.
But the debonair Clooney, 50, spent three months seriously considering suicide after suffering a devastating injury on the set of the 2005 drama Syriana.
Clooney, who gained 30 pounds to play an undercover CIA agent in Syriana, suffered an spinal injury during a torture scene and he didn't think he'd be able to live if the excruciating pain persisted.
“I was at a point where I thought, ‘I can’t exist like this. I can’t actually live,’ ” George told Rolling Stone.
“I was lying in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm, unable to move, having these headaches where it feels like you’re having a stroke.
"For a short three-week period, I started to think, ‘I may have to do something drastic about this.' You start to think in terms of, you don’t want to leave a mess, so go in the garage, go in the car, start the engine.
It seems like the nicest way to do it, but I never thought I’d get there. See, I was in a place where I was trying to figure out how to survive.”
Fortunately, Clooney recovered from his injury, lost the weight and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
The perennial bachelor currently stars in the drama The Ides of March opposite Ryan Gosling.
George, who stays fit by playing basketball, doing intense cardio workouts and Bikram Yoga, says the public's image of him as a dapper don is really unwarranted.
"I'm the least metrosexual cat you've ever met," says George. "I've never had my fingernails or toenails done, and I've cut my own hair longer than other people have cut my hair.
"On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux – it takes me three minutes to put on a tux – and be out the door in 15 minutes."
Clooney, who has dated a string of beautiful younger women, enjoys life and has fun but insists he's not the party animal the media makes him out to be.
"I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time," says Clooney.
"They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple."
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