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Show Wednesday, July 28, 1 976 Page 5 Utah Foundation p. Dong .t 1 111 Mfc -'Safc 111 Instructor km Cttln . - . - 1 1 JZ It I5;wy 0fKs wlpfl ByMegO'Shaughnessy P ... IMZTI ovtrstting chsi. Om. Harmony. A sound, healthy body. What it is. Yoga. "The goal of yoga is to achieve a perfect sound body, an intellect, steady and sharp as a razor, and a . will as pliable as steel, and a soul that shines forth." These are the pursuits of the hatha yoga taught by Jane Catlin, who, though she passes through metamorphases as fish, swan, cobra and locust, is well recognized among students who have learned to follow her through her flexible apparations. "The hatha yoga I teach consists of; postures and asanas designed to bring the physical body into complete healthy harmony, meditatinions done to increase concentration, energy, vitality and to achieve a sense of peace, and paranayama, breathing exercises, which use the full capacity of the lungs, relax and control the breath, and teach one to direct energy to specific parts of the body, bringing an even distribution of energy throughout." Jane, who quickly relaxes into t her nickname, Twiglsey, includes in the program she outlines the importance of diet towards physical and spiritual well-being. She has, quite literally, an air of health about her. Emanating from her bright blue eyes and luminous long red electric locks. Is that what they call aura? Twiglsey began her yoga sutdy six years ago in her hometown of Ogden. She has since studied with Swami Satchidarianda in California, Swami Vishnuedavadanta in Quebec, at the Integral Yoga Institute in Boulder, and has this year extended her study to include Kundalini Yoga under the teacher Satmandri in Ogden and at an ashram in Ploenix, Arizona. She leads her classes into states of relaxation; following the awareness from the toes up through the torso to the top of the head and off. the fingertips. She asks sutdents to visualize the energy, prana, the life force they are bringing in with each deep breath, and to be aware of its flowing through their bodies, directing it with their attention to, the areas which are dark, ailing in some way, and to heal those areas by this attention, mediatation. She shared chants with the group, as songs and as invocations. Om namo gurduev namo. This Sanskrit phrase is meant to call a guru and to help one to discover the guru, the pure self who dwells within. Watching the fluid grace with which she demonstrates postures, it appears that this yoga is a ballet of sorts, movements from a dance. She studies aprirants through asanas, beginning with the cat stretch and forward bends, through the sun salutation,; an overall body stretch, and into ac ecoraplished poses such as the shoulder stand (Sfur-; vangasans), headstand and the tree, where J (he i balance, a stillness, is achieved through breath j control and concentration. Part of each class is devoted to a meditation. A slowing down of thoughts a pulse, with the focus on a mantra or breathing pace, usually followed by a chorded harmony as the cluster of cross-leggeds together sound a chant. The class meets Wednesdays and Fridays (9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. for beginners and 11 a.m. to 12:30 for intermediate in-termediate and advanced levels) at the 'Park City Park, where the sun is warm, the clouds are a magic show viewed from the corpse pose, the air is delicious in the early morning, and the grass is a fine cushion, oryou may bring your own. There is an additional beginners class Wednesday and Friday evenings, 7:30 to 9 in the MemoriaFBuilding and a new schedule of classes to be announced for the fall. Yoga. Youi too, can see things from a new perspective. per-spective. Come. Get some stretch. Get some space. Om Shanti. (Enough of getting sideways) Get upside down. Rapid inflation, the petroleum crisis, and accelerating ac-celerating appropriations from the Highway Fund to non-highway purposes combine to cloud the future of Utah's highway construction and maintenance program, according to Utah Foundation, Foun-dation, the private, nonprofit public service agency. Utah's highway program is currently on a sound footing, but largely because of a succession of General Fund appropriations to the highway high-way fund over the past year and one half, the Foundation noted in a research report released this week. Appropriations to the Highway High-way Fund, totalling $11.3 million, have been made from General Fund surpluses. sur-pluses. Whether such surpluses sur-pluses will exist in the future, and whether any transfer from the General Fund to the Highway Fund would be made if surpluses . did not exist, cannot be predicted at -his time, the Foundation points out. A degree of parallel between bet-ween the highway situation in Utah and on the national level is noted by the Foundation. The 1976 Federal Highway Act, which became law earlier this year, is described by Federal officials as "in terim bill" that keeps programs going at "a reasonably adequate level" but which does not deal with "long range problems that must be addressed in the near future." One factor in keeping the Federal highway Help a Local Friend this Friday Night THE C'EST BON ENTERTAINMENT LOUNGE -will donate $1 .00 on each ticket sold to the concert Friday night to help "Grunion." So get turned on to a good artist, a good concert and help a good friend. In Park Mli Jsiriry lR!fl(fiilnl(allllo U UU w U U w this Fri. & Sat. Doors will open at 7:00 p.m. the Smolder Brothers will begin at 7:30 'jerry Riopelle will do his first show at 9:00 and his second at 1 1 :30. PMwb program healthy has been the release of $11 billion in highway high-way funds impounded by previous administrations. The money was impounded in order to restrain inflationary pressures in recent years, and its release over the past 18, months has had a marked effect on highway construction con-struction throughout the nation. Utah's share of the released Federal impoundments im-poundments coupled with the General Fund transfers that enabled the state to provide matching funds for the proffered Federal dollar have kept Utah's program moving at "a reasonably adequate level". Utah's Federal apportionment ap-portionment for all Federal-aid Federal-aid highway programs in fiscal 1976 is $75.6 million, which includes $13.3 million to cover the "transition quarter" when the Federal Government moves from a July-through-June to October-through-September , fiscal accounting period, starting October 1, 1976. Utah's Federal apportionment ap-portionment for fiscal 1977 is $63.0 million. , Revenues going into Utah's Highway Fund have been slowed by 'the increase in the price of petroleum, which has reduced motor fuel consumption. con-sumption. Very recently a reversal in the trend has been ' noted, producing additional highway revenues. However, highway officials are viewing this with caution, noting that another increase in the price of foreign oil could come at City it's the 3 C'est Bon Entertainment Lounge-on Lounge-on the second floor at the C'est Bon Hotel, Park City. Bmq1(B(q1 any time, and that such a development might quickly reduce the comsumption of motor fuel as it did in 1974. Another factor whith reduces the amount of money available for highway construction con-struction and maintenance is money appropriated from the Highway Fund to non highway purposes, such as contributions to the general govenmennt ' overhead, ap propriations to the Ta Commission to cover costs oi handling the Motor Fuels Tax, appropriations to the Highway Patrol and other units of the Public Safety Department, and others. Highway Fund money also goes to the "B" and "C" collector road funds; these local road programs complement com-plement and are essential to the state highway system, but money thus used is taken from the state program itself. These appropriations are increasing much faster than the money available for the state highway program. Such appropriations are not challenged on legal grounds, but they do reduce the amount of money available for state highway construction con-struction and maintenance. Looking at Utah's presently-adequate highway -program and assessing the uncertainties of the future. Utah Foundation notes that a number of alternative courses of action are open to the state. These include: Continuing the present course, supplementing Highway High-way Fund revenues with r ' u TICKETS GOOD FOR THE ENTIRE EVENING ADVANCED TICKETS AT THE C'EST BON $4.00 TICKETS AT THE DOOR $4.50 ' way transfers from the General Fund, as needed. This would make long-range planning difficult, as the intentions of future legislatures could not anticipated. Changing the motor fuels tax from a cents-per-gallon to a percentage of total salt price. This would tend to counter the effects of future inflation. If the change were calculated on the basis of a rate higher than the present 7-cents-a-gallon, Utah highway high-way officials feel it might meet the present and future needs. Discontinuation of appropriation ap-propriation from the High way Fund to non-highway nurnncac anH molrincf enoh appropriations from the .General Fund. Increasing the present motor fuels tax by an amount to be decided. Highway of ficials have indicated the need for an additional 3 cents a gallon if the existing backlog is to be erased and the program carried forward on a basis to meet present and future needs. At the present time, Utah is one of 13 states imposing a tax of 7 cents a gallon. Only three states impose' lower gasoline taxes. Ten states levy a tax of 8 cents a gallon, and 13 states impose a tax of S cents. Two states and the District of Columbia charge 10 cents a gallon and Hawaii imposes a tax ranging from 11.5 to 13.5 cents a callon. A number of states charge fractional amounts between 7 and 9 cents a gallon. |