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Press Releases

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

 - Dalai Lama
April 2008 • First Edition  

Yoga @ Your Desk

One of the greatest things about yoga is that you can bring it out of the class into your everyday life. Once you learn the basic poses, you can practice at home. You can take it into the office or even into traffic.

Just five minutes of yoga can add a renewed sense of energy to your day.

Taking a Minute for Yoga: Wrist Opener

Before you start make sure you have enough space to extend your arms out in front of you.

Sitting straight up in your chair, press your sitting bones down into the chair, and lengthen your back. Place your hands on your knees. Slide your shoulder blades down your back. Close your eyes or focus your eyes softly forward. Take a moment and focus on your breath.

Bring your hands together and interlace your fingers together. From here, straighten your elbows and turn your palms out

Feel the gentle stretch opening your wrists. Take as much time as you need here. Softly focus on breathing and enjoying the time you made for your yoga.

Send us a picture of yourself doing
yoga @ your desk!

If we feature you in our next edition of Yoga @ Work, you'll win a FREE month of yoga!
Send your pictures and a brief comment about your yoga experience to: tori@yogayoga.com

Stress Be Gone

Medical research estimates that as much as 90% of illness and disease is stress-related.

Yoga offers an effective way to relieve stress in the workplace, home or wherever it may arise. Bringing yoga into your life combats stress, restores energy and gives you a renewed sense of well being. The simple poses and breathing exercises offer an energizing start to the day, a revitalizing afternoon break or a great way to wind down in the evening. For more information about the benefits of yoga, click here.

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Yoga Yoga's 10th Birthday

On January 12 1998, Yoga Yoga opened its first studio at 1700 South Lamar. Founders Michael (Mehtab) Benton and his wife Laura (Guru Karam) had been teaching out of a studio in their home and followed a heartfelt calling to make yoga available to as many people as possible. Since then, their inspired vision blossomed into a thriving business with four studios. Their intention remains the same.

Yoga Yoga serves not only to teach classes, but to build community and establish relationships with our students that last a lifetime. Yoga's incredible ability to heal the body and mind has literally transformed the lives of our students. Some of those students have become teachers through our nationally recognized teacher training program.

Yoga Yoga's concern for the community also extends to our Yoga Care Foundation which supports scientific research and offers yoga to those ordinarily unable to practice this healing and transformative exercise. Also, the Yoga at Work program provides on site classes and workshops to keep Austin's business community healthy both small and large.

We are thrilled that 2008 marks our tenth anniversary and the doors of Yoga open every morning with the same aspiration as on that very first day - "May we be here today so we can serve those who come tomorrow."

Click here to read more about Yoga Yoga.

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In this issue of Yoga @ Work:


Back Pain Relief!

Do you know somebody who suffers from low back pain? More than likely you do since, according to the National Institutes of Health, 80% of adults experience low back pain at some point in their lives. In recent years, an increasing number of scientific research studies have shown that yoga can be an effective treatment for low back pain.

Yoga Yoga's Personalized Self-Care Program for Chronic Low Back Pain draws on this research and incorporates specifically designed techniques and systematic approaches that are key to creating a healthy low back. New session begins May 1st.

Click here for details.

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Bring Your Practice Home

To help bring this healing and invigorating exercise into your daily routine, Yoga Yoga's retail boutique offers a wealth of books, music CDs, yoga practice DVDs and yoga props. Having a good mat, or book can deliver the extra inspiration to have a great practice.

Click here to check out some of our favorites - all available at Yoga Yoga studios.

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All the Yoga You Want

Yoga Yoga has four locations in Austin that offer the convenience of yoga whenever it fits your schedule. We teach over 350 classes every week. Yoga Yoga is proud to be Austin's largest yoga studio and thrilled that locals and visitors alike can enjoy a class whenever their heart desires. So, which class is right for you? Click here for descriptions of the styles that we offer.

Click here to see all of our classes. (You can sort by location, day or type in the upper right drop-down menu.)

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Yoga Vacation

On June 8th-June 14th, Yoga Yoga is returning to the pristine Pacific beaches of Mexico, at Haramara for an incredible yoga vacation with teachers Matt Borer and Sapphire Bell. This will be our only vacation for 2008, so reserve your space soon!

Visitors have called Haramara "a sanctuary for the soul". Clean and empty beaches are embraced by the luxury of tropical vegetation. The site offers the required peace, seclusion and security for a renewing yoga vacation.

Click here for more information.

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The Yoga Yoga 10 Years of Yoga Contest

It's sort of like a scavenger hunt through the Yoga Yoga Summer 2008 schedule.

If you practice yoga once a week,
you will change your mind.
If you practice twice a week,
you will change your body.
If you practice every day,
you will change your life!
-
Mehtab, Yoga Yoga Founder

Get ready to change your life ...and win lots of prizes, including a Full Year of Unlimited Yoga!

Click here for details.

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