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Oct 11

California yoga studio hosts bachelorette parties

Historically, the Golden State has been home to many an odd personal pastime. From panning for gold in frigid mountain streams to big-wave surfing in the ice-cold Pacific, Californians have been known to do some pretty wild things – which should make its bachelorette-party California yoga classes no real surprise.

According to the New York Times, at least one California yoga studio is offering to host yoga-themed bachelorette celebrations. Similar classes are offered in other regions, too.

That's not the only unusual yoga trend sweeping the country, either. USA Today reported that suspension yoga – also known as hammock yoga – has sprung up in a number of states.

This acrophobia-inducing variant of the holistic routine involves hanging several feet off the ground in a silk sling or net. However, some practitioners seem to love it.

"It's almost this thing that happens when you're inside and it lets you close out the rest of the world and be still," dance choreographer and yoga instructor Christopher Harrison told the news source.

While wild and wacky variants will come and go, the traditional, wholesome practice of yoga, meditation and tai chi can help anyone relax, recuperate and reflect on their place in the universe.

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Oct 11

Huge California yoga class will be held outdoors in Santa Monica

Have you heard about a massive yoga event slated for October 22? Is your California yoga studio planning an outing to Santa Monica on that day? If so, you may be headed for Yoga Day LA, a huge outdoor gathering that is expected to draw at least 1,500 enthusiasts.

NBC Los Angeles reports that the event will be held in Topanga Canyon, a scenic area outside of Santa Monica. The gathering will take the form of seven California yoga classes, each one composed of hundreds of eager students.

Yoga Day LA is an annual event. Part of its proceeds will go to NextAid, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that supports sustainable development initiatives for women and children in Africa.

The news source noted that attending the self-designated "largest outdoor yoga event" in LA may be a great way to beat the stress and anxiety caused by the city's traffic and smog.

Not only that, but attending California yoga classes like this one can foster social connections and engender a new-found respect for the outdoors that you might never otherwise have.

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Oct 11

California yoga classes instructor throws weights into her routines

When Argie Tang discovered that she had osteopenia – a state of thin bones and lower-than-average skeletal density – she decided to do something about it. Now she teaches California yoga classes that mix traditional stretches and poses with the use of free weights.

Tang is one of the first instructors to blend yoga and weight-lifting, according to the UK Telegraph. She still leads such classes in her California yoga studio. However, even minus the weights, yoga can improve bone health in men and women alike.

Multiple studies have addressed yoga as a potential treatment for osteopenia and osteoporosis. One report appearing in the journal Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation found that just 10 minutes of yoga per day improved participants' bone mass density.

The effect was so noticeable that several volunteers were clinically downgraded from osteopenic to skeletally healthy, and others from osteoporotic to osteopenic.

Another study, this one published in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy, noted that yoga appears to improve bone turnover in postmenopausal women, a group severely afflicted by osteoporosis.

An estimated 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, 8 million of whom are women, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

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Oct 11

Dahn Yoga Brea California

Brea Dahn Yoga is a holistic health and training center located in downtown Brea, California. If you are interested in finding a workout that is mild and yet extremely effective, Dahn Yoga may be for you. To see for yourself, Brea Dahn Yoga is offering a free class on Saturdays.  This one-hour class is lead by a highly experienced and trained Dahn Yoga instructor who will showyou how easy, effective and soothing a Dahn Yoga workout can be.

Dahn Yoga is a unique Korean style of yoga that combines Tai Chi, Yoga, forms of meditation and acupressure.  To read about other’s experiences with Dahn Yoga you can visit their website http://www.dahnyoga/brea/

 


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Aug 11

California yoga studios multiply in Sacramento

How popular are California yoga classes? Well, if the number of California yoga studios tells us anything, it's that people from all over the Golden State are flocking to yoga classes, studios and centers faster than ever.

A report aired by KCRA 3 News determined that the number of yoga studios in Sacramento alone doubled in just two years, from 12 in 2008 to more than two dozen in 2010. The figures were located in the city's business license records.

Studio owner Julie Havelock told the news channel that the economic recession appears to be one of the factors underpinning this wild expansion of yoga. She said that her business has experienced significant spikes in memberships, possibly because people need somewhere to go to get away from the nation's dire financial straits.

Sanjay Varshney, the dean of the California State University's Sacramento College of Business Administration, agreed with this sentiment.

"Yoga is something that helps the mental state of mind. So, with all of the stress, I think it's natural people are looking to yoga as a thing to basically seek some comfort," he told the news source.

For whatever reason, Southern California is bristling with yoga centers, which cater to individuals of all ages, backgrounds and body types. The Los Angeles Times estimated that more than 70 such studios exist in this region alone.

More broadly, yoga has been booming all across the U.S. In 2008, the Yoga Journal released a report estimating that 15.8 million people – or nearly 7 percent of all Americans – practice yoga, deep breathing, stretching and meditation.

The source stated that another 18.3 million people are interested in trying the holistic regimen, which has been sustaining human health and wellness for thousands of years.

Why wait around for the yoga classes near you to fill up? Try signing up today!

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Jun 11

Jason Mraz ends engagement, says he and fiancee still do yoga together

Using yoga to calm one's mind and make peace with others is usually possible, and oftentimes more necessary than ever when one is going through difficult times in one's life. For example, singer-songwriter Jason Mraz recently ended his engagement to singer Tristan Prettyman, noting that the two of them still practice yoga together.

He made this revelation in an interview with The Daily Beast. He added that one of the reasons why their engagement fell through was that their lives were getting increasingly out of balance.

"Two halves don't make a whole," he told the news source. "Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that."

Mraz lives a health-conscious lifestyle, both physically and mentally. He previously revealed to the Vegetarian Star that he is a strict vegan, eating mostly raw foods, especially at his favorite restaurant in San Diego, California.

The singer also takes time out to practice yoga but is not without a sense of humor about it. Several years ago he released a mock yoga video, titled "Yoga to Go," depicting him posing in incongruous places, like laundromats, skate parks and children's playgrounds.

Yoga To Go

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Apr 11

Dahn Yoga announces latest ‘Meridian of the Month’

While Dahn Yoga has helped tens of thousands of Americans relieve their muscular tension and ease their mental stress, the regimen has the potential to accomplish much more than that. With some careful meditation and focused relaxation, along with stretching and body-tapping, practitioners of the discipline may open up blocked energy channels in the body.

As part of its Meridian of the Month series, Dahn Yoga has announced that April’s featured energy channel is the Spleen Meridian, also known as the “Inner Mother” for its wide-ranging ability to heal the body.

The spleen is involved in the creation and storage of red blood cells, and also plays a role in immune functions. Blockages in the Spleen Meridian can lead to loose bowels, inattention, memory difficulties and menstrual complications.

By rebalancing the flow of the body’s life energy, or Ki, through its meridian channels, individuals may find themselves feeling happier, healthier, less wound up and more at peace with those around them.

For the Inner Mother, leg squats are an effective exercise for reopening this channel, as is lying on one’s back, lifting one’s legs up 90 degrees and holding that position while breathing.

Using Dahn Yoga energy and meridian channeling exercises, yoga enthusiasts often find that heretofore unknown reserves of inner energy can be released.

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Mar 11

Veterans find stress relief in yoga, deep breathing

The anxieties of the workaday world can be stressful enough, but those left over from combat are inarguably worse. Dahn Yoga breathing techniques already suffice for individuals suffering from the trials of work and family life. Now, war veterans are being instructed in deep breathing for stress relief.

Some veterans in Boca Raton, Florida, are learning to calm themselves down using yoga, deep breathing and stretching exercises, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports. The group, called Connected Warriors, meets to learn basic yoga methods that can reduce post-war fear, anxiety or past-traumatic stress disorder, the news organization said.

“I am learning to stop being on the defensive,” sergeant major Maria Mariska Allsopp told the source. “I am making my own kind of peace.”

Stress relief is a key goal of Dahn Yoga breathing techniques, which focus on inhaling refreshing energy and exhaling toxins, tension and negative emotions.

This respiratory method, which is known as Jung-Choong breathing, also concentrates the mind on the body’s Governing Meridian, up which cool energy flows the the brain and warm energy flows down to the belly, a cycle that is necessary for equalizing the body’s forces.

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Mar 11

Yoga helps LA Dodgers limber up before practice

The stretching, deep breathing and exercises associated with yoga may help people in any kind of physical shape attain a new level of flexibility and muscular health. Whether it’s a modern technique or the ancient method of Dahn Yoga, news stations often report on actors and athletes who practice yoga.

Recently, the New York Daily News noted that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been taking yoga lessons during training camp in an effort to boost their physical dexterity and mental focus.

Their instructor, Katherine Roberts, has been with the baseball team for three years now, the news source added.

“My initial objective was I wanted to bring yoga to a demographic of people that would not walk into a yoga studio, primarily men,” she told the Daily News.

Regardless of one’s gender, and whether one is a professional athlete or not, there is good news – Dahn Yoga may also be able to improve one’s physical and mental acuity.

By employing the discipline’s breathing exercises, stretches, tai chi movements, static poses and meditative introspection, practitioners may be able to reunite the mind and body. Such a connection contributes to the pacification of one’s personality, even as it leaves one feeling energized.

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Mar 11

Yoga instructor teaches classes for those with Parkinson’s

The ways in which the body goes about self healing are subtle and take time, so by using any sort of mind-body system, like meditation or Dahn Yoga, health may be restored that much more quickly. Of course, sometimes a condition is life-long, in which case the care must ease symptoms or reduce pain. With this in mind, one California woman has begun holding yoga classes for people with Parkinson’s disease.

Colleen Carroll, who lives in Topanga Canyon, regularly holds stretching and breathing tutorials for people with multiple sclerosis, stroke, epilepsy and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, according to the Pacific Palisades Post.

She told the news source that her students engage in exercises and relaxation techniques designed to facilitate self healing and to correct posture.

Of her members, she said that “they come into my class hunched over, shuffling, tremoring and walk out with a long stride and upright,” as quoted by the website. Carroll added that while she knows that healing is not the same as curing, she finds pleasure in helping people work with their disabilities. This is something she and Dahn Yoga health experts share, along with many other yoga instructors.

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