She ends the book with various "cheat sheets" containing the traditional Ashtanga opening and closing chants, breath counts, picture guides, and a glossary of yoga terms.
Some people think that yoga means stretching, bending and twisting like a pretzel, or sitting crossed-legged with our eyes closed and chanting "Om".
As the cast is chanting the closing number, stagehands undoubtedly meant to remind patrons of the aborted opening scramble over the stage to grab microphones from the ensemble and remove some of their clothes.
During the Soviet era, many churches and monasteries were closed, and the chant tradition was suppressed.
"I Can't Give Everything Away," Blackstar's closing track, was a pretty, chant-like ballad on January 9, somewhat like the 1993 single "Miracle Goodnight" but with the harmonica burble from 1977's "A New Career in a New Town".
Dressed in red shirts, the demonstrators chanted "close down Malaysiakini" outside the company's offices in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday in a largely peaceful gathering that lasted several hours.
On a recent Wednesday, the session closed with inmates chanting the Heart Sutra ("all dharmas are forms of emptiness," it declares, referring to the universal truths taught by the Buddha).
The movement is closed by a chant-like accompanied Sanctus, taken from the. (And his mercy [is on them that fear him from generation to generation]) is sung by the soprano soloist first, repeated by the choir.
Tell them that they have to stand in the bathroom, door closed, lights off, chanting "Bloody Mary" 10 times while spinning around.
"Yes we can!" – "¡Sí se puede!" – is the deafening chant that closes the rallies.
