Is the US army ‘babying’ troops with physical training of yoga, resting?
2011-03-06 14:30:00The US Army is overhauling its physical fitness tests for the first time in 30 years by adding a new ‘combat readiness test’ that incorporates cross-training, elements of yoga, and the benefits of rest.
Announced on March 1st, the new training will be phased in over the next six months at several bases. However, some seasoned veterans have said that the new regimen coddles soldiers, reports the CS Monitor.
via Is the US army `babying` troops with physical training of yoga, resting?.
Hard to believe they have not improved the physical fitness test in 30 years! I am glad they are learning things and are able to add some yoga like things to the training.
We were talking about yoga for vets the other day, and I see now that it is a great idea for do yoga with active duty as well.
Practitioners protest proposed tax on yoga
By Ed Stannard
New Haven Register
Published: Saturday, March 05, 2011NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yoga has been popular for decades among those seeking to reduce stress and increase fitness, but in its pure form it’s a 4,000-year-old religious ritual mentioned in ancient Hindu texts.
via SentinelSource.com |Practitioners protest proposed tax on yoga.
The yoga and regulation, yoga and tax talks continue around the country.
Bow Down to the Yoga TeacherBruce Katz / Amelia Island Plantation-MCT-Getty ImagesGreg Gumucio, standing, leads a yoga class at his studio, Yoga to the People, in New York.
Marco, the tattooed instructor at the front of the room, is all charisma. He stalks; he pounces; he perches on my back as he corrects my Janu Sirsasana pose otherwise known as a forward bend. “If you tell it to me from your mind, I’m not interested,” he announces, to begin the class. “That’s just drama. I’ve got my own drama.” It can be difficult to exit the studio when Marco’s class is over: people lingering to talk to him block the door.
An article on Yoga in Newsweek- you do not see that very often. They are certainly trying to stir the pot in the yoga world, and sell magazines. As a yoga teacher, I certainly tend to defend teachers and find myself schlepping off what they are suggesting. The reality is though, when we find ourselves defending ourselves from criticism, that there must be some truth to it. Some truth to yoga teachers having egos? Certainly. The main take away from the article is that yoga teachers are people too.
As a yoga teacher, it is important to maintain a personal practice as a student of yoga along side your teaching. As we share yoga we can share from our personal struggles as well as our successes.
Thanks for sharing this article. It is always great to have an opportunity for self reflection.
-Bryan
What’s the Hard Return on Employee Wellness Programs?
by Leonard L. Berry, Ann M. Mirabito, and William B. Baun
Since 1995, the percentage of Johnson & Johnson employees who smoke has dropped by more than two-thirds. The number who have high blood pressure or who are physically inactive also has declined—by more than half. That’s great, obviously, but should it matter to managers? Well, it turns out that a comprehensive, strategically designed investment in employees’ social, mental, and physical health pays off. J&J’s leaders estimate that wellness programs have cumulatively saved the company $250 million on health care costs over the past decade; from 2002 to 2008, the return was $2.71 for every dollar spent.
via What’s the Hard Return on Employee Wellness Programs? – Harvard Business Review.
Great article about healthy employees.
-Bryan
The Delicate Art of Adjustments
Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
By EMILY S. RUEB
Published: February 11, 2011
GENTLY, PLEASE Jason Ray Brown and Frances Taylor-Brown, a married couple who teach at Zenyasa Yoga and Wellness Studio, illustrate adjustments to poses.
THINGS can get awkward when a group of strangers strip down to their spandex in a steamy, sweaty room. This is especially true in yoga class, where getting into a camel pose, for instance — thrusting your hips forward while kneeling — can feel, well, a bit “porny,” as Claire Dederer put it in the prologue of her memoir, “Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses.”
via Yoga Adjustments Tread a Fine Line of Personal Space – NYTimes.com.
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Meditation in motion. Yoga instructors will tell you this is true happiness.
Now, work in the lab shows that work on the may may be working wonders for your brain.
Gaba is a chemical in your brain that’s released when you’re happy. Studies from the Boston School of Medicine shows yoga stimulates the brain – boosting mood while decreasing anxiety.
via The connection between yoga and your brain.
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Yoga is great.
Bryan
Yoga’s Stress Relief: An Aid for Infertility?
Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
Tracy Toon Spencer teaches yoga to Jessica Tabibnia, left, and Kimberly Soranno, at the N.Y.U. Fertility Center.
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Published: February 4, 2011
KIMBERLY SORANNO, a 39-year-old Brooklynite undergoing an in vitro fertilization cycle as part of her quest to become pregnant, had gone to her share of yoga classes, but never one like that held on a recent Tuesday night in a reception area of the New York University Fertility Center. There were no deep twists or headstands; just easy “restorative” poses as the teacher, Tracy Toon Spencer, guided the participants — most of them women struggling to conceive — to let go of their worries.
via Yoga as a Stress Reliever in Infertility? – NYTimes.com.
Great article on yoga and the benefits of stress relief.
Bryan
Tim Dale branches out with Yoga Tree
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
Tim Dale, founder of the Yoga Tree studio, strikes a yoga pose in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010.
Three men in their 50s, carrying rolled-up mats, walk into an afternoon class at Yoga Tree. A fourth man in his 50s is seated on the bench in the lobby. He is Tim Dale, 53, a reformed nightclubber who just opened his fifth branch of Yoga Tree.
via Tim Dale branches out with Yoga Tree.
Neat little article about Yoga Tree in San Francisco.
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- Print out the appropriate application form (below)
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E-RYT 200 – a yoga teacher who is a RYT 200 (or equivalent) with a minimum of 2 years and 1,000 hours of yoga teaching experience since becoming a RYT 200 (or equivalent).
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