He also said that his father had been a regular practitioner in his youth.

He is a regular practitioner of yoga.

Like many other Pentecostals, Thomas is a regular practitioner of glossolalia or the gift of speaking in tongues.

Eventually he became a regular practitioner of meditation, even while keeping his distance from the kind of straightforward prayer he had known in his youth.

Regular practitioners say it helps them deal with stress, unleashes their creative energy, counters depression and fosters self-confidence and optimism.

For regular practitioners, however, Acem Meditation is typically seen as a method for long-term personal growth rather than just a relaxation technique.

Sometimes it is difficult to communicate all of these especially when some operating procedures or techniques are so routine, a regular practitioner may forget to include such details.

The practice of purification by ritual use of water while reciting prayers typically done daily by regular practitioners, and when possible by lay practitioners.

Among regular practitioners, university trained physicians formed a medical elite while provincial surgeons and apothecaries, who learnt their art through apprenticeship, made up the lesser ranks.

And is this opposition to vegetables, and exaltation of steel and iron instead, on the part of the regular practitioners, capable of any interpretation but one?

Using two psychological questionnaires, this study suggested that regular practitioners of Brain Wave Vibration were less stressed and experienced more positive emotions and fewer psychosomatic symptoms.

It is, of course, emblematic of the accompanist's plight that Levine, 45, the most prestigious recital partner a singer can have today, is not a regular practitioner of the art.

"I mean a power basically similar to hypnotism, but carried to an extreme degree, far beyond what Van Helsing or Charcot or any of the regular practitioners of today can hope to accomplish.

The center includes a growing outpatient clinic, a dental ward for patients who have been turned away by regular practitioners, one of two AIDS-testing laboratories in the city, a psychosocial counseling center and an informational hot line (1-800-433-AIDS).

They have few professional and regular practitioners of medicine, and these are chiefly Gy-ei, who, especially if widowed and childless, find great delight in the healing art, and even undertake surgical operations in those cases required by accident, or, more rarely, by disease.