Most mysteriously, why had Mr Jois himself apparently stopped practising his sort of yoga decades ago?
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It has her little girl scrawl on it where she was practising his signature.
Mr Shieff, originally from Derby and now living in London, has defended the video, saying he has been practising his skills for six years.
Sir Ranulph had been due to lead the team from the front on skis, and had been practising his skiing in whiteout conditions when he fell.
Prince Charles spent a few minutes practising his putting, and also paused to taste a pint of beer belonging to one of the many golf fans lining the course.
But he had got over it, practising his moves first on boulders from which he could fall five feet onto sand, gradually working higher, until some hundred feet up he could confidently climb with his palms open and relaxed, as calmly as if he was walking to the store.
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If a bird has been practising in his dreams, it might seem strange that he has deteriorated in the morning.
Living in a small flat in Sharrow, an area just to the south-west of the city centre, Davies would spend hours practising with his brother on an artificial pitch just off the London Road and it was evident from a young age that his ability was far superior to his peers.
What is one to make of Mr Frist, who opposes affirmative action for minorities while practising it for his own son?
Pearce has had his players practising spot-kicks since the end of the domestic season and they warmed up for the finals in Holland with a shoot-out against Slovakia.
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Finding a grand piano still tuned at concert pitch he begins to play as if he had been practising every day instead of breaking his hands on bricks.
Mr Rushdie, who is a non-practising Muslim, was seen in his book to be mocking Islam's Holy Book, the Koran, its prophet and his wives whose names he associated with prostitutes.
Robinson, a practising Christian and generous philanthropist, ended his days in far away Los Angeles.
Not so long ago, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was lauded for his calm demeanour and for practising a politics of decency and reconciliation.
He developed his skills, through four hours of practising memorisation daily, only after he had passed the ripe old age of 20.
Some criticize his socializing: he plays tennis with practising lawyers, and has been seen on the golf course with chief presidential counsel Renato Cayetano.
How could he go on practising a religion when he couldn't even remember his reasons for joining it?
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In fact, though he is a practising Catholic, Mr Aznar has long been at pains to keep his distance from the hard old right and from the traditionalists close to the church.
He said he had first experienced "something impinging on his consciousness" as part of a Christian Missionary Society (CMS) scheme to Kenya during his gap year between school and university when he was not a practising Christian.
The GMC has been criticised for allowing Richard Neale to practice on his return to the UK in 1985, despite having been banned from practising in Canada.
She says Mr Berdymukhamedov is proud of his own athleticism, with state media often showing him riding horses, cycling, practising martial arts or racing cars.
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The Swiss says the break will allow him to take a holiday with his wife and twin three-year-old daughters before spending 4-6 weeks practising on clay courts in Switzerland.
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