Come try the most popular form of yoga in the world. Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class, offered through the Sparks Parks and Recreation Department, provides a 90-minute, no-impact high-calorie burning workout to help increase the flexibility and strength of every muscle in the body.
You may not burn many calories, but you could take some years off your face. Face yoga is finding a niche among millions of women who want to firm their face and reduce the wrinkles – without the pain and expense of Botox and facelifts. Practitioners claim the exercises relieve tension in the face muscles, warding off frown lines, sagging cheeks, crow’s feet and droopy eyes, mouths, chins and ...
You’ve heard of downward-facing dog, but how about downward-facing baby? Mahopac resident Wendi Gelchinsky first heard about Itsy Bitsy Yoga classes ( www.itsybitsyyoga.com ) while visiting her son and his family in Boston.
Yoga can be practiced anywhere with minimal fuss and equipment, making it a great exercise for those on the road. But who wants to pack a mat in an already stuffed suitcase? Yoga Paws ($29.95 to $34.95) hand mitts and foot pads (which squish into a small mesh traveling case) offer the best of the mat – its traction – without bulk, weight or locker-room scent.
In 1996, when Richard Galentino walked into a Georgetown University gymnasium for his first yoga class, he was not sure what to expect.
Active Interest Media today announced substantial gains in newsstand sales for its flagship health title, Yoga Journal. From 2005 to 2006, newsstand circulation grew 13.4%, and averaged over 100,000 copies in newsstand sales per issue, according to the December 2006 Audit Bureau of Circulation Fas-Fax.
Today's yoga practice doesn't always go the way I want it to. So where do I find the motivation to show up again tomorrow, anyway?
