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This listing provides information on food and fitness events in Utah. To submit announcements, send information to Life, P.O. Box 12790, Ogden, UT 84412-2790; fax to 801-625-4299; or email vzimmer@standard.net. Deadline is noon Wednesdays. For information, call 801-625-4270.

Fitness classes

Free yoga class, noon-1 p.m. Friday, Ogden YOGA, 115 Historic 25th St., Ogden. 801-560-7778.

FILE -- In this Sept. 27, 2003 file photo, Jordan Ciambrone of Tempe, Ariz., assumes a yoga position for a panel of judges during the first International Yoga Asana (Posture) Championship, hosted by the Bikram's Yoga College of India, at the Yoga Expo 2003 in the Los Angeles Convention Center. The National Yoga Asana Championship is being put on in New York and run from March 2 through 4, 2012, by an organization that wants to see yoga asana competition become an Olympic sport. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Yoga poses as Olympic sport: Is that a stretch?

NEW YORK -- The judges will be watching -- were the competitor's knees locked? Were the wrists straight? Did the forehead and the knee connect? If not, points are going to be lost.

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Tony Briggs, director and owner of Turtle Island Yoga, demonstrates the correct way to do the head to knee Yoga pose, stressing the use of the supplemental equipment that is meant to help prevent injury, at the Berkeley Yoga Center in Berkeley, Calif.

Considering yoga? Listen to your body to prevent injuries

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- Mark Goldman was a relative newcomer to yoga when he found himself teetering in standing lotus pose with an instructor barking over him like a drill sergeant.

"You can get into this pose," the yogi said. "Push harder."

Goldman, a "typical Silicon Valley" go-getter who works in high tech sales, took the bait. The harder the better, he thought. He deepened his squat, forcing his knee down. Then -- snap.

He'd torn his meniscus, the tissue that aids motion in the knee. Surgery would repair it. However, it would take Goldman, a longtime runner with a stiff body, years to develop a mindful yoga practice more in line with what Indians intended when they developed the lifestyle 5,000 years ago.

FITNESS EVENTS

This listing provides information on food and fitness events in Utah. To submit announcements, send information to Life, P.O. Box 12790, Ogden, UT 84412-2790; fax to 801-625-4299; or email vzimmer@standard.net. Deadline is noon Wednesdays. For information, call 801-625-4270.

Fitness classes

Vinyasa Flow yoga, 9:30-11 a.m. Saturdays, March 3, 10 and 24, Eccles Community Art Center, 2580 Jefferson Ave., Ogden. For beginners through advanced students. $25, $10/drop-in. Preregister, (801) 392-6935.

Steve Rubin practices yoga with his children, including son Isaac, at least once a week. (SHNS photo by Jetta Fraser / The Toledo Blade)

Yoga 'puts you in a good place'

Everybody's doing it.

Celebrities, seniors, young adults, teens and young children. Even cats and dogs.

People of every race and religious group are catching on to the benefits of yoga.

The 5,000-year-old practice has gone from an obscure Eastern-oriented discipline to somehow, almost overnight, the hottest exercise trend.

FITNESS EVENTS

FITNESS EVENTS

This listing provides information on food and fitness events in Utah. To submit announcements, send information to Life, P.O. Box 12790, Ogden, UT 84412-2790; fax to 801-625-4299; or e-mail vzimmer@standard.net. Deadline is noon Wednesdays. For information, call 801-625-4270.

Fitness classes

n this Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 photo, travelers Maria Poole, right, and Lindsey Shepard, practice yoga at San Francisco International Airport's new Yoga Room, in San Francisco. The quiet, dimly lit studio officially opened last week in a former storage room just past the security checkpoint at SFO's Terminal 2. Airport officials believe the 150-square-foot room with mirrored walls is the world's first airport yoga studio, said spokesman Mike McCarron. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

San Francisco opens airport yoga room

SAN FRANCISCO  -- Stressed out by flying?

Travelers in Northern California can now find their inner calm in the Yoga Room at San Francisco International Airport.

FITNESS EVENTS

This listing provides information on food and fitness events in Utah. To submit announcements, send information to Life, P.O. Box 12790, Ogden, UT 84412-2790; fax to 801-625-4299; or e-mail vzimmer@standard.net. Deadline is noon Wednesdays. For information, call 801-625-4270.

Fitness classes

Hypnosis for weight loss, 6 p.m. today, Pleasant Valley Branch of the Weber County Library, 5568 Adams Ave., Washington Terrace. Free. (801) 337-2690.

FITNESS EVENTS

This listing provides information on food and fitness events in Utah. To submit announcements, send information to Life, P.O. Box 12790, Ogden, UT 84412-2790; fax to 801-625-4299; or e-mail vzimmer@standard.net. Deadline is noon Wednesdays. For information, call 801-625-4270.

Fitness classes

SBlt Restorative yoga, noon Wednesdays or 5:15 p.m. Mondays, Jan. 4-April 25, Eccles Community Art Center, 2580 Jefferson Ave., Ogden. $42/month or $12/day. $55/both sessions. Preregister, (801) 392-6935.

FOOD & FITNESS EVENTS

This listing provides information on food and fitness events in Utah. To submit announcements, send information to Life, P.O. Box 12790, Ogden, UT 84412-2790; fax to 801-625-4299; or e-mail vzimmer@standard.net. Deadline is noon Wednesdays. For information, call 801-625-4270.

Food classes

* Bread-baking classes, 10-11 a.m. Fridays, March 25-April 15, Hervin Bunderson Center, 641 E. 200 North, Brigham City. $20.

Suspect in yoga shop killing hurt herself

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- An employee at an upscale yoga shop killed a co-worker at the store after it closed for the night, then hurt herself and posed with her hands tied above her head so police would think they were attacked, according to court documents.

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