Category: Yoga News

PUTRAJAYA: The National Fatwa Council declared that yoga practices which involve physical movements, worshipping and chantings are haram (prohibited) in Islam. The announcement was made Saturday. Recently, Prof Zakaria Stapa, a lecturer of Universiti …

Northeast Baptist Hospital is hosting a new class called Yoga for Round Bodies. Just as the title suggests, it is a program to get overweight people onto the mat and into a different kind of physical fitness.

The holidays are quickly approaching. Many people feel stressed out during this time — and the uncertainties and changes already happening in our society are heightening stress levels. In fact, you may feel so stressed right now that it’s hard to …

“I’m warning you: I know yoga.” Actually, it’s not a joke. It’s true. I’m the karate dropout in the joke. I do know yoga. And I’m not afraid to use it. I have to be a tough yogi. I live in a family of karate practitioners: two brown belts …

Yoga instructors will travel with shuttle bus passengers at CVG airport on November 25 and November 26.

If the idea of getting down on the floor to strike a yoga pose makes you say, “Ouch!” instead of “Om!” you can bypass mats and go directly to chairs at Urban Active. The Louisville-area health club offers a 45-minute “Ch. Oga” class — and it’s literally yoga in a chair.

A three-hour workshop on addressing back pain through yoga will be this weekend.

The Ohio State University Medical Center is setting out to prove what many breast cancer survivors have long suspected: Yoga helps strengthen the immune system as well as the bodies of those recovering from the disease.

Inhale. Stretch. Exhale. Pose. Yawn. Sound familiar? Luckily, there’s hope for the yoga-tired. Hybrid classes featuring yoga along with what may seem like its polar opposites are cropping up everywhere.

The owners of a downtown Frederick yoga studio are creating some instant karma for generous Frederick County residents. Aimee Firor McBride and Maria Garre, the owners of Ananda Shala, are giving free yoga classes in exchange for canned goods until …