- On the Beach, the Yoga Poses Really Flow (New York Times)
A yoga class on the beach begins and ends before most people arrive.
- Still yoga center opens for business in Big Bear City (Big Bear Grizzly)
Cathleen Calkins’ world is still these days. She opened the Still Center for Body and Mind in Big Bear City earlier this week. Still offers yoga classes Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at a new studio adjacent to Eastside Book Cafe.
- How yoga found its way onto my calendar (Provo Daily Herald)
How yoga found its way onto my calendar
- Fitness: New York's Renewed Yoga Frenzy (New York Post)
Yoga, now an estimated $5.8 billion business worldwide, found a hub in our stressed-out city in the early ’90s, with boldface practitioners like Christy Turlington, Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker and Russell Simmons chanting om and spending hours in downward dog. Still, with last month’s opening of New York’s largest center, the Equinox Group’s Pure Yoga on the Upper East Side, it’s only ...
- An ancient art for young bodies - roanoke.com (Roanoke Times)
At the Earthsong Teen Meditation Retreat in Ferrum, teens learn to identify their own wisdom, thoughts and feelings. FERRUM -- Ceiling fans churned above their heads. Yoga mats rested below their bare feet. Ahead of them, as they bent and stretched in unison like dancers, a young, ponytailed instructor reminded them to be mindful and graceful.
- Peer Pressure's Weight (Washington Post)
Peer groups are known to impact whether teens smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol or take drugs. Now, there's new evidence to suggest that they also affect adolescents' body image as well as their dieting efforts and workouts, as you'll learn in today's Lean Plate Club column.
- Health Events (The Tampa Tribune)
EVENTS BLOOD PRESSURE SCREENINGS: MinuteClinic health care centers located inside select CVS pharmacy stores in Tampa, Oldsmar, St. Petersburg, Wesley Chapel and Tarpon Springs will offer free blood pressure screenings until Aug. 1. No appointment is necessary.
- Faith Matters (Savannah Morning News)
Send items two weeks before an event to calendar@savannahnow.com or fax to Faith Matters, 525-0796. Notices must be typed and include the name and telephone number of a contact person to answer questions. Faith Matters items are printed in the Saturday Accent and Thursday Closeups as space allows. Additional events are published on savannahnow.com/know .
- Smith Street's Nu Hotel Hits All The Right Gruppy Notes (The New York Observer)
Smith Street, Brooklyn's restaurant Mecca, has at long last scored its first boutique hotel, and the hotel's operators sure do know their audience. Hersha Hospitality's Nu Hotel , at the corner of Smith Street and Atlantic Avenue, hits nearly ever single gruppy note. Is it eco-friendly? Check. The press release boasts that the hotel has cork flooring, organic linens, and "custom ...
- COMMUNITY CALENDAR (Cambridge Chronicle & Cambridge Tab)
MONUMENT INSCRIPTION WORKSHOP — 2 p.m., Mt. Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt. Auburn St. Help preserve inscriptions on Mt. Auburn’s 19th century monuments. Free. For information, call 617-607-1981.
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