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News Articles: Yoga

Practicing yoga from home with online instruction proved beneficial to a group of people with chronic low back pain.

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  • Health

Online yoga classes prove helpful for back pain in new study

Participant reported relief from chronic low back pain and reduced need for pain-relief medications.

November 12, 2024
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By:
  • Ronnie Cohen
Malachi Smith meditates during a mindfulness session in his classroom at Roberta T. Smith Elementary School, May 14, 2024, in Rex, Georgia. School districts across the U.S. have been introducing yoga, meditation and mindfulness exercises to help students manage stress and emotions.

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More US schools are taking breaks for meditation. Teachers say it helps students' mental health

School districts across the U.S. are adopting mental health practices as a part of their daily schedules and curriculums. Yoga, meditation and mindfulness exercises are being implemented alongside traditional reading, math and science lessons.

August 05, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
People participate in a mass yoga session on International Yoga Day in Times Square on June 21, 2023 in New York City. The CDC finds about 1 in 6 adults in the U.S. practice yoga.

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  • Health

Have we reached peak yoga in the U.S.? The CDC wants to know

Around 1 in 6 U.S. adults practice yoga. The mind-body activity has grown and evolved over recent decades, into more accessible versions that reflect a current focus on mental health and mobility training, researchers say.

June 12, 2024
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By:
  • Pien Huang
Alan Hostetter, seen here in May 2020, became a leading activist against coronavirus-related lockdown policies in Orange County, Calif. Hostetter, a former police chief and yoga instructor, was convicted of conspiring to obstruct congress' certification of the 2020 presidential election results at the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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Former police chief turned yoga teacher sentenced to 11 years over Jan. 6 riot

A retired police chief, who led pro-Trump protests and called for "traitors" in government to be "executed as an example," was sentenced to 11 years in prison for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot.

December 07, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach and
  • Barbara Van Woerkom
Photo prints of the late Guru Jagat for sale at the RA MA Santa Monica yoga studio.

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  • National

She was a popular yoga guru. Then she embraced QAnon conspiracy theories

Themes like everything is connected, nothing happens without a purpose, and nothing is what it seems are central to both yoga philosophy and conspiratorial thinking.

January 03, 2023
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  • Emily Guerin
People do yoga on the beach in Miami Beach, Fla., on March 23.

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  • Business

Noncompete Agreements Are Everywhere, Even Neighborhood Yoga Studios

Yoga studios want to protect their interests. Yoga teachers say they are unfair and should be done away with.

August 13, 2021
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  • Andrea Hsu
The new law will allow Alabama public schools to offer yoga for students. Here, kids participate in a yoga class in Pennsylvania.

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  • Education

Alabama Will Now Allow Yoga In Its Public Schools (But Students Can't Say 'Namaste')

Alabama banned yoga back in 1993. The ban is now revoked — but English names must be used for all poses and exercises. And meditation is not allowed.

May 21, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell

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