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Healthy Life: Instructor talks merits of Yoga

If your impression of yoga is stretching your body into uncomfortable positions while chanting and practicing transcendental meditation, Sherri Pope would tell you you're only partially correct.

Thai Yoga Massage blends age-old wellness practices

ONEIDA — The two concepts of yoga and Swedish massage are familiar to most people. But a new avenue to wellness — Thai Yoga Massage — combines the benefits of both.

TEMECULA: Library offers free monthly yoga

Sandra Brautigam, the adult programs coordinator for the Grace Mellman Community Library in Temecula, said a monthly, free yoga class offered at the facility is a great way to feel better.

Boost your well-being with these yoga poses

CHICAGO -- Ingrid Yang turned to yoga a dozen years ago as a way to deal with injuries she suffered as a distance runner. "When I started stretching and doing some strength training -- not with weights, but with my own body weight -- I noticed I was becoming injured less and less," Yang says of her introduction to yoga. Soon after, she started teaching yoga, eventually owning her own studio and ...

Stretching the Limits: Peace must come from the inside

Bang! Bang! Bang! A bass beat rattles the walls of the yoga studio. Next door, construction workers and plumbers are hard at work. Sigh. I'm trying to lead a class here. This isn't the calming environment I wanted to cultivate for my students.