In observation of National Yoga Month September 2009, the Yoga Health Foundation calls for individuals, families, communities and businesses to join in a national mind body fitness movement focusing on prevention and creating a healthy lifestyle.
The Yoga Health Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c(3) organization based in Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Johannes R. Fisslinger as a mind body fitness movement to inspire families and communities throughout the nation to live a healthier lifestyle. In 2008, the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion deemed September (followed by Breast Cancer Awareness in October) to be National Yoga Awareness Month and listed it as an official health observance.
National Yoga Month is a campaign to educate and inspire youth and adults to take responsibility for their health by focusing on prevention and living a healthy lifestyle. Yoga Month provides the perfect opportunity to create positive lifestyle changes for yourself and your family.
Yoga is a scientific system of physical and mental practices including various postures (exercises) that involve deep breathing, body movement, meditation and relaxation. The scientifically proven benefits of yoga are numerous, including increased flexibility, reduction of stress, strengthened immune system, enhanced respiration, improved brain function, reduction of inflammation and pain associated with arthritis and other chronic conditions, and a decrease in hypertension.
Based on a survey conducted by Yoga Journal, over 15 Million people from all walks of life are practicing yoga in the US; another 15 to 25 million have expressed an interest in trying yoga. There is a yoga style that is appropriate for everyone, including children, teens, special needs individuals, business professionals, pregnant women, politicians, celebrities and seniors.
National Yoga Month is partnering with other yoga health organizations such as YogaFit, Lucy, Jade Yoga, Shakti Mat and Yoga Alliance to inspire the nation and bring about change in health care. Prevention and healthy lifestyle choices are the key to a successful health care reform and individual health.
Yoga studios, teachers, organizations an businesses are encouraged to join National Yoga Month by creating or participating in a Yoga Month event in their city.
To learn more about the health benefits of yoga and to redeem the Yoga Month Card for One Week Free Yoga to be redeemed at participating yoga studios across the Nation visit the National Yoga Month website.
Contact:
Yoga Health Foundation
Phone 310 928 6638
Website www.yogamonth.org
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Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
YOGA IN THE LIBRARY
The Lake Wales Public Library is hosting a Saturday afternoon "Kids' Yoga" class this month.
Certified yoga instructor Kelley Bogle will teach this the class for children ages 5 to 12. Classes will be held each Saturday this month, from 2 to 2:45 p.m., in the library's meeting room.
Bogle has taught yoga for more than 10 years and is the Lake Wales Public Library's Monday evening "Relaxation Yoga" class instructor for adults.
Class size for "Kids' Yoga" will be limited. There is a charge of $5 per class. To pre register for one or all the classes, call the library at 863 678 4004, ext. 0. For details, call Bogle at 863 521 0074.
By News Chief
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Certified yoga instructor Kelley Bogle will teach this the class for children ages 5 to 12. Classes will be held each Saturday this month, from 2 to 2:45 p.m., in the library's meeting room.
Bogle has taught yoga for more than 10 years and is the Lake Wales Public Library's Monday evening "Relaxation Yoga" class instructor for adults.
Class size for "Kids' Yoga" will be limited. There is a charge of $5 per class. To pre register for one or all the classes, call the library at 863 678 4004, ext. 0. For details, call Bogle at 863 521 0074.
By News Chief
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Monday, 3 August 2009
STRANGE YOGA.... OR NOT?
Weirdo Hippie Yoga Farmer is the latest viral video from everythingisterrible.com. Farmer Yogi Ogi Dogi gets much respect for possibly being the most limber agriculturalist in North America, but some of those hugs are suspect.
Honestly, I bet this video is kind of cute without the hilarious editing. A friend who taught kids yoga would mention things like having the kids slay dragons, so it all makes sense now.
Rasta Rooster...I have no words for.
By Maya Henderson
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Honestly, I bet this video is kind of cute without the hilarious editing. A friend who taught kids yoga would mention things like having the kids slay dragons, so it all makes sense now.
Rasta Rooster...I have no words for.
By Maya Henderson
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Friday, 31 July 2009
YOGA AND OVER EATING
What does yoga have to do with binge eating? Apparently quite a bit. In a study conducted at the University of the Rockies, a graduate university specializing in master's and doctorate degrees in psychology, binge eaters who participated in a 10 week yoga therapy program had their binge eating episodes drop from about five to less than two per week. The program combined an hour of yoga with a half hour group discussion each week.
According to lead researcher Deborah Patz Clarke, yoga addresses the mind body disconnect that's so prevalent in our society, particularly among binge eaters. People with eating disorders escape life's turbulence by over or under eating to numb disturbing emotions. They substitute their relationship with food for real connections or feelings in their lives. Yoga helps them learn to be in the moment and to handle things they used to avoid with food.
"Yoga also raises awareness of and responsiveness to the body, which makes it an ideal modality for helping treat psychological disorders that take the body hostage, such as eating disorders or substance addictions," Clarke said. "By reconnecting with their body, people find that the desire to abuse their body significantly decreases."
THE LATEST YOGA NEWS, FROM IT IS YOGA
According to lead researcher Deborah Patz Clarke, yoga addresses the mind body disconnect that's so prevalent in our society, particularly among binge eaters. People with eating disorders escape life's turbulence by over or under eating to numb disturbing emotions. They substitute their relationship with food for real connections or feelings in their lives. Yoga helps them learn to be in the moment and to handle things they used to avoid with food.
"Yoga also raises awareness of and responsiveness to the body, which makes it an ideal modality for helping treat psychological disorders that take the body hostage, such as eating disorders or substance addictions," Clarke said. "By reconnecting with their body, people find that the desire to abuse their body significantly decreases."
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Monday, 27 July 2009
OFFERING YOGA CLASSES
Riverview Health Promotion is offering three different yoga classes beginning the week of Aug. 24. The classes will be held in Riverview Hospital's lower level conference center and will be led by Heidi Dix, YogaFit certified instructor.
Gentle Yoga is designed for those who enjoy yoga at a slower pace. The class focuses on warming up the body, connecting with the breath, releasing muscle tension, and increasing strength and flexibility with a gentle, flowing yoga practice. It will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Aug. 25 to Oct. 14, and from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, Aug. 27 to Oct. 15. The cost is $40 or $32 for those 60 years and older.
Chair Yoga is a gentle, restorative yoga designed for almost anyone. It is practiced while seated in a chair or standing with a chair for support. Chair Yoga increases flexibility, strength, balance and circulation, while encouraging proper breathing and posture. It will meet from 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Tuesdays, Aug. 25 to Oct. 13 (except Sept. 15). The cost is $35 or $28 for those 60 years and older.
By WRT
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Gentle Yoga is designed for those who enjoy yoga at a slower pace. The class focuses on warming up the body, connecting with the breath, releasing muscle tension, and increasing strength and flexibility with a gentle, flowing yoga practice. It will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Aug. 25 to Oct. 14, and from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, Aug. 27 to Oct. 15. The cost is $40 or $32 for those 60 years and older.
Chair Yoga is a gentle, restorative yoga designed for almost anyone. It is practiced while seated in a chair or standing with a chair for support. Chair Yoga increases flexibility, strength, balance and circulation, while encouraging proper breathing and posture. It will meet from 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Tuesdays, Aug. 25 to Oct. 13 (except Sept. 15). The cost is $35 or $28 for those 60 years and older.
By WRT
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YOGA AND OLD AGE
When a man of 91 walks as if he is barely 60, talks as if he is a 45 year old CEO of a recession proof company and smiles with the innocence of a 10 year old, there ends all debate, if there's still any, about the wonders that regular practice of yoga can do to your mind and body. But then, the man in question is no ordinary practitioner, he is the lord of yoga.
Perhaps more people in the West are familiar with the name of BKS Iyengar than in India, though with the winds of change blowing, from the West, unfortunately, the importance of yoga and Iyengar's stature in the field are being acknowledged back home as well.
"When I became a teacher in 1936, one was thought to be half insane to take up yoga. We did not have more than 10 teachers in the whole of India. Until 1954, we were struggling. I was teaching in schools and colleges of Pune. They would make me wait for hours. At times they would just send me back after the wait. I took all those humiliations but never gave up," said Iyengar, who was in Chennai on Sunday afternoon to give away certificates to students of the prestigious Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram who had completed their teacher's training.
In 1954, salvation arrived in the form of a student called Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist and conductor, who was in India to perform at the invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru. "He had a nervous attack and could not hold the violin. Yoga cured him and he gave successful performances. He invited me to teach in Switzerland, which turned out to be the gateway of yoga to the West. People never thought someone of Menuhin's calibre could be interested in yoga," reminisced Iyengar.
By Bishwanath Ghosh
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Perhaps more people in the West are familiar with the name of BKS Iyengar than in India, though with the winds of change blowing, from the West, unfortunately, the importance of yoga and Iyengar's stature in the field are being acknowledged back home as well.
"When I became a teacher in 1936, one was thought to be half insane to take up yoga. We did not have more than 10 teachers in the whole of India. Until 1954, we were struggling. I was teaching in schools and colleges of Pune. They would make me wait for hours. At times they would just send me back after the wait. I took all those humiliations but never gave up," said Iyengar, who was in Chennai on Sunday afternoon to give away certificates to students of the prestigious Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram who had completed their teacher's training.
In 1954, salvation arrived in the form of a student called Yehudi Menuhin, the violinist and conductor, who was in India to perform at the invitation of Jawaharlal Nehru. "He had a nervous attack and could not hold the violin. Yoga cured him and he gave successful performances. He invited me to teach in Switzerland, which turned out to be the gateway of yoga to the West. People never thought someone of Menuhin's calibre could be interested in yoga," reminisced Iyengar.
By Bishwanath Ghosh
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Friday, 24 July 2009
YOGA AND FITNESS
Former WWE diva Trish Stratus recently appeared on BiteTV's "The Surf" show in Canada to talk about her post WWE adventures and upcoming line of fitness/yoga DVDs.
Trish was a fitness model before WWE signed her to a contract in the late '90s. A decade later, she's free to produce her own line of products without WWE calling the shots. Well, she put it a bit differently.
"Since my background came from the fitness industry, people said, 'When are you going to do a video?' It just wasn't the right time or...my soul was owned by WWE or whatever," Trish said wryly. "So, there was not an opportune time to these videos."
The clip of Trish's "WWE owned my soul" line is at the 3:30 mark in the "After Show" video below. The second video below is the full 40-minute episode of Stratus on "The Surf" with clips of her sky diving and doing a Jeff Hardy Swanton Bomb, as she described it.
By PWTorch
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Trish was a fitness model before WWE signed her to a contract in the late '90s. A decade later, she's free to produce her own line of products without WWE calling the shots. Well, she put it a bit differently.
"Since my background came from the fitness industry, people said, 'When are you going to do a video?' It just wasn't the right time or...my soul was owned by WWE or whatever," Trish said wryly. "So, there was not an opportune time to these videos."
The clip of Trish's "WWE owned my soul" line is at the 3:30 mark in the "After Show" video below. The second video below is the full 40-minute episode of Stratus on "The Surf" with clips of her sky diving and doing a Jeff Hardy Swanton Bomb, as she described it.
By PWTorch
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