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yoga News Archive02-Apr-2007
FAYETTEVILLE -- When it comes to yoga, there are more qualified individuals to show how to get into the lotus position than Keith Jackson Jr. PARIS - Hundreds of children at the Oxford Hills Middle School learned new skills in class Friday ranging from a yoga pose to self-defense methods. By the end of their doggie yoga class, most of the wandering and sniffing participants are passed out on their mats, in a position their instructor calls the "upward facing belly pose." Barefoot student models with flowers in their hair, wearing bamboo yoga pants or flowing peasant skirts, will sashay down the runway in a sweatshop-free fashion show at the University of Connecticut this month. In the 1980s, it was a safe bet that you knew someone who took aerobic dance classes. In the 1990s, your friend who loves to try new exercises switched to kickboxing-type classes such as Tae Bo. Today, she probably goes to "body sculpting" classes -- stretching and strengthening exercises such as yoga and Pilates. Area instructors and practitioners say the nationwide trend of attending these ... Yoga mats circle the gleaming hardwood floor of the second-story room at 304 W. Weaver St., where people come every other Friday to laugh. Stressed. Distractable. Overactive. Lethargic. Anxious. Obese. These are now common descriptors of children in our current fast-paced and fast food society. We have research studies conducted on stress in infants and toddlers. CAMDEN â?? A reader styling himself Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., has weighed in on the question of whether the yoga proposed to be taught to children in the Camden-Rockport school system is a religious thing.
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