W Magazine by Robert Moritz

September 2001

Excerpt from "Of Mantras and Muscles"
A good example of the look she's citing is Duncan Wong, owner of the Shiva Shala Yogic Arts Center in New York and personal instructor to of yoga's most famous aficionados, Sting and Madonna. At 5 foot 7 inches and 140 pounds, Wong is notable for his chiseled torso and life-of-the-party ability to spin a 300-pound man around on the flat of his back. (Sting, who looks pretty good for a 49 year old, hasn't lifted weights in ten years.) "The stereotypical image of a good body -very rounded and bulky- is totally ineffective," says Wong. "If you go to a real yoga school, the teachers are going to be extremely strong and very intense. They're going to have a great look and, more important, a great attitude. If you have a bad attitude, you 're going to look ugly no matter what. Your body listens to your mind."