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Yoga for the Home
Vastu — the principles of architecture described in ancient Hindu scriptures — guides you to well-being through creating an environment where energy flows harmoniously. BY ADAM SKOLNICK
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my car was jammed with items from a threebedroom house I’d shared two years ago with my ex-fiancée. I was literally lugging my past around. This could not be healthy. Fortunately, soon thereafter I was introduced to Robin and Michael Mastro of Vastu Creations. Partners in business and life, the Mastros practice vastu shastra, a more than 5,000-yearold science of architecture and design described in the Vedas, the earliest Hindu sacred writings. Vastu — practiced in India and the >
ERICKA MCCONNELL. PHOTOGRAPHED AT PARROT CAY RESORT
’m supposed to be a yogi. Every morning I stretch, breathe, and sweat through asanas to ease stress and maintain emotional and physiological equilibrium. It’s all about finding balance. Yet one morning during my practice, when I looked around my apartment, what I saw alarmed me: A deluge of files spilled out from beneath a desk, books were piled around an empty bookcase, and art was stacked against walls. There were also unpacked boxes strewn around, which reminded me that the trunk of