Yoga For Modern City Life - Yoga is Now a Lifestyle

Is it any surprise models are wrapping their wrists inpraises of yoga -- or helping to catapult the
mala beads, fashion designers are heading off to5,000-year-old practice onto the cutting edge.
India for yoga retreats and there's a new line ofYoga Zone, a hip New York yoga studio with a
active wear that takes its name from the Sanskrithalf-hour show weekdays on cable's Health Network,
mantra om.has an entire catalog dedicated to the joy of yoga.
To the uninitiated, yoga is pretzel-like poses and aIn addition to the predictable range of videotapes,
dim memory of the Beatles visiting the Maharishi innonslip mats and meditation cushions, there are
the 1960s.multiple pages of clothing and accessories.
Gurmukh Kaur, the Center for Living's white-turbanedCotton-Lycra hipsters are the definitive Yoga Zone
founder, travels by limo -- in a blaze of cameralook for practice and beyond. Spaghetti-strap
strobes -- with one of her students, singer Courtneycamisoles and halter tops with subtle embroidered
Love.logos come in black, slate, garnet, moss green and
What she does is kundalini yoga, Ms. Love told aother quiet but current colors.
reporter covering the bash for fashion-bible Women'sEven the jewelry has a fashion angle: Pendant
Wear Daily. It's better for me than Prozac -- and thenecklaces with the Chinese symbol for clarity or the
clothes are nice, too.Sanskrit symbol for om are crafted by the hot
Ms. Love is hardly the only celebrity singing thefashion duo Me & Ro.