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By Rbecca Groff, The Gazette

March 14, 2015 | 3:00 pm

For a time, yoga was touted as the solution for the under-pressure business professional. A way to calm down, decompress and gain focus.

In classes throughout the Corridor today, that approach to inner peace is part of sales pitch.

Hatha yoga is the beginning of yoga, said Cindy Hathaway, who teaches hatha yoga at Prairiewoods Spiritual Center in Hiawatha. It offers not only calming, meditative benefits, but is also beneficial for muscle toning as well as cardio and arthritic issues.

Hatha yoga refers to a set of physical exercises, known as asanas or postures, and sequences of asanas, designed to align skin, muscles and bones. The postures are designed to open the many channels of the body, especially the spine, so that energy can flow freely, she said.

But the way the western culture of the United States approaches yoga is different from that of the eastern culture, where it originated.

Here in the west, Hathaway said, most people think of it only as the poses.

In my classes, we concentrate on the poses and the breath work because I do like to touch on the spiritual end of yoga.

She teaches approximately 60 students each week at Prairiewoods Spiritual Center in Cedar Rapids.

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Organised by Odanadi, an organisation working to raise awareness to put an end to human trafficking, Yoga Stops Trafficking was held in the city on Sunday in which scores of yoga enthusiasts took part to draw attention to the scourge of human trafficking.

Held simultaneously across many cities in the world by Odanadis partner NGOs, the organisers claimed that last years event helped raise funds to help rehabilitate 95 girls and contributed to the salaries of 22 social workers, administrative and educational staff.

The yoga demonstration in Mysuru was held near the Chamaraja Circle adjacent to the palace and Odanadi founders Mr. Stanely and Parashuram said yoga enthusiasts from 51 countries and 122 cities had registered for the event in what was described as a yoga marathon.

Last years edition saw hundreds of yoga enthusiasts from Mysuru to New York rolling their mats and demonstrating their support to the Odanadi cause, said the organisers.

The number of participants as also the countries in which the event will take place this year, has increased to 55 nations this year, up from 25 nations last year and the organisers are hopeful of roping in participants from more countries in future.

The scourge of sexual exploitation of women and children was on the rise and the civil society should raise its voice against the menace, said Odanadi. The organisation is working since more than two decades to rescue and rehabilitate victims of human trafficking.

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Having tackled the Scientologists in his most recent film Going Clear, documentary maker Alex Gibney takes on a cult that is even more ardent, and with considerably more members that of Apple. His unsparing portrait of Steve Jobs will prove extremely displeasing to devotees, but its a riveting and important corrective to the myths Jobs helped to propagate, and which in the four years since his death have proved as seductive as his machines and a lot more durable.

Gibneys film comes ahead of the forthcoming Jobs biopic, directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin. That film is said to comprise of three acts, each set just before one of Jobss presentations, but Gibey sets about zeroing in on certain aspect of Jobss life to paint an unsparing portrait of a modern-day Citizen Kane. Jobs, a die-hard Dylan fan who Gibney paints as a product of 60s counterculture, was set alight by the way early blue box hacking technology, which allowed users to make long distance phone calls without paying for them, a way Jobs could delightedly stick it to the Man.

Yet this man, whose belief in his own righteousness was unshakeable, also terminated Apples philanthropic programmes, presided over huge corporate tax evasion, paid Chinese workers making iPhones a pittance, and only stumped up maintenance for his first daughter after dragging his ex-girlfriend through the courts, claiming that she was promiscuous and he was infertile, until a DNA test proved otherwise. Finally, he agreed to pay $500 a month he was worth $200m at the time.

The film also spends some time on the 2010 incident when a drunk engineer lost a next-generation iPhone 4 prototype in a San Francisco bar, and the man who found it sold it to Gizmodo, who splashed its secrets around the world. Jobs, just one year from death from pancreatic cancer, enacted a revenge that included the police battering down of the door of the journalists house. Gibney presents footage of an ailing Jobs justifying such Mafia-style vengeance on the grounds that not to do so would be a betrayal of Apples values.

But what were these values? Gibey traces Jobss love of the hippy set text Be Here Now and his journeys to India, before Jobs concluded that he was most fulfilled in the Japanese walled gardens of Zen Buddhism. Jobs took on Zens minimal design, and applied it to Apple with world-eating success, but the spiritual dimension was beyond him. Aged 18, Jobs had knocked on the door of Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogawa and said that he believed he was enlightened, but didnt know what to do with it. The monk, who died in 2002, asked for proof, and Jobs returned with a chip from a PC, a first computer he would name Lisa, after the daughter he had fought so hard not to acknowledge. Hes brilliant, but hes too smart, was the monks conclusion.

The film points out that Jobss genius was in personalising computers Lisa being the first but it also reveals that this impulse came from a pretty messed-up place. As well as being deeply ambivalent about paternity, Jobs also felt at once rejected and anointed by the fact that he was adopted. Jobs has somehow transmitted that mess to us too. Our iPhones connect us to faraway friends and family, yet we spend increasing amounts of time alone with them, seduced by machines that can never really fulfil us.

Gibneys film concludes that Jobs had the monomaniacal focus of a monk but none of the empathy of one, and it makes a powerful case. Jobss was an astonishing life of such significance that it will probably be studied for centuries, and Gibney does not downplay his genius. Yet the kernel of the film is probably the ex-girlfriend who says that Job blew it. How so? Jobs achieved things that the vast majority of us would never dream of. Yet Gibeys film ruthlessly anatomises the contradictions, the ruthlessness, and the pointlessly crappy behaviour that reveal Apples ideals to be a sham, even while the products themselves continue to prove almost irresistible.

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