The Mind Body Soul Experience: a celebration of good posture, human credulousness and the placebo

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I love this stuff...

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There are tables covered with bite-sized samples of health foods, all of which have one thing in common: they taste awful. At the four corners of the hall, yoga classes are underway; the schedules promise demonstrations of variants including Broga (for dudes), Voga and Hip-hop Yoga. There is even one called Tequila Yoga Rave. It is my understanding that they actually give you a shot of tequila at the start. It is supposed to help free you from “the tyranny of thought”. That more or less chimes with all my experiences with tequila.

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To be honest, I don’t really have a problem with a combo such as “spiritual haircutting” – a “professional haircut and healing experience rolled into one”. It may sound a bit silly, but talking nonsense and doing a good haircut are by no means contradictory disciplines. The effect of one doesn’t cancel out the other. I’m much more worried by the leaflet I pick up from someone who claims to be both a Subtle Energy Medicine specialist and a qualified dentist.