2E Monday, August 19, 1996 FYI UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN We Buy, Sell, Trade & Consign USED & New Sports Equipment 841-PLAY 1029 Massachusetts 工 8 When you pick up the Kansan... please pick up all of it.. THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Lunaria Center specializes in yoga Stretching and breathing get exercisers to relax Edmée Rodriguez/KANSAN By Carrie DeSandro Special to the Kansan Preston is a student at The Lunaria Center, a renovated church at 1000 New York St. where founder Anna Lunaria holds beginner and intermediate yoga classes twice a week. Dressed in loose, comfortable clothing, Jennifer Preston, Perry junior, begins an hour of yoga exercises by taking deep abdominal breaths, known as ujayi breath, to focus and calm her thoughts. "Yoga is one of the most stress-relieving activities I have done, and learning the breathing techniques helps in everyday stressful situations as well," Preston said. Anna Lunaria is in the Eka-Pada Rajakapotafana, or the King Pigeon position, a stretch exercise in yoga. Lunaria has been teaching voga for 10 years and also offers private classes. Lunaria began taking yoga classes in college when friends suggested it as a low-exertion exercise that was easy. She did not expect it to become a key part of her life. Yoga is defined as the union of one's individual and spiritual consciousness, or more commonly, as the union of one's body and one's mind or soul. "Yoga brings a greater awareness to the body and has always been a huge blessing to me, which is why I teach it," she said. Lunaria made the former single-room church into both her home and the studio for her classes. The kitchen is on the church stage and her bedroom exists in what was probably the upper-balcony of the compact sanctuary. An old Magnavox television set sits in one corner, and a tall bookshelf flanked by two plush blue reading chairs stands in another. The living room even has a regulation-size basketball goal hanging high on the wall. A homemade rock-climbing wall lines the corner of her office. As eclectic as her home, Lunaria, also a massage therapist, teaches what is known as hatha yoga, performs yogassage and reads tarot cards as well. "Hatha yoga is the branch of yoga that focuses on the physical body using a system of postures, breath and meditations," Lunaria wrote in a short newsletter she gives to newcomers. One of the oldest forms of exercise, hatha yoga consists of 12 basic poses, or asanas, varying from the simple wind reliever pose (drawing knees to the chest), to the more difficult tricky triangle pose (bending at the waist sideways forming a triangle with one hand touching the foot), which was named by a frustrated yoga student. A more advanced, cardiovascular workout can be achieved by combining asanas in a rapid and repeated flow to form vinyasas. Vegetarianism is the diet of choice for many practicing yoga, based on the theory that foods lower on the food chain promote better health and are digested easier. Hatha yoga also teaches a five-point philosophy, including proper exercise, breathing, relaxation, diet and thinking. Yogic breathing, or pranayama, provides what Lunaria calls an oxygen cocktail that helps loosen muscles during the poses. This, combined with moving your body through a series of relaxing positions while at the same time meditating, is how yoga strengthens the body, she said. While yoga may look easy, mastering many of the poses will take practice. Utilizing deep, rhythmic breathing and making the poses fit the body, not the body fit the poses, yoga can be done by anybody, Lunaria said. "Yoga is about you and your body," she said. "It helps the inflexible become flexible and the flexible become strong." The hour is over, and now it's time for Preston's favorite pose, the sponge pose, which simply requires her to lie flat on her back, breathe, relax and nearly fall asleep. Lunaria ends every session by sitting with her legs crossed and her hands in a prayerful manner in front of her chest, sending her students off with the Sanskrit saying, "Jai Bagwan," which means, "I salute the highest in you." PIZZA PAPA JOHN'S Hours: Sun: noon to 2 am Mon-Tuesday: 11 am to 2 am Fri-Sat: 11 am to 3 am Better Ingredients Better Pizza. 865-5775 2233 Louisiana (23rd & Louisiana) PAPA JOHN'S VALUEMENU
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