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down dog
noun
Downward-facing dog
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Bad writing (as in the play Down Dog and the devised show The Principle of Motion) is horribly exposed here.
That at times of stress, when my body clenches, I imagine myself stretched taut into down dog.
The forward folds turned into twists, child's pose turned into down dog, the backbends turned into more backbends, and finally, I was in headstand again.
Leave it to the leisure class to spend an hour and 15 minutes deep-breathing its way into the perfect down dog.
Anyone who knows a down dog from an up dog can tell you that yoga - which traveled through several time zones and incarnations to take root and flourish in America - is a booming, multibillion-dollar business.
Occasionally it'll be words that describe an image or concept, like I might write down "dog afraid of vacuum cleaner" or "two beavers talking," but I never draw those things until I've actually got a joke idea.
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Many years later, when Greenway became editor of The Globe's editorial page, the paper criticized animal rights advocates who wanted to close down dog-sled racing in Alaska.
At dinner parties I'd attended, everyone at the table kept coming up with bright ideas for dot-coms, and this one was mine: I'd post a complete list of dog runs in New York; track down dog-friendly cafes and hotels; rate pet-supply stores; maintain a message board for dog owners.
Some yogis, veterans of a thousand down dogs, long for a new twist.
The initial documents revealed a series of examples in which trainers attempted to put down dogs unnecessarily.
Another key piece of the puzzle is Whistle's remote monitoring, which I frequently take advantage of to stay connected to what Charlie is doing while I'm out solving crime and chasing down dog-related startup founders.
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