POCATELLO On Sunday, the Portneuf Sangha and Meditation Center will view the next portion of a video of a retreat led by Pema Chodron, titled "Living With Vulnerability."

In this section, she continues to teach us to become aware of our true limitless potential. Chodron is an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition who is highly regarded for her teaching on compassion and fearlessness.

The morning begins at 10 a.m. with a 30-minute silent meditation period with guidance offered for those who would like it. After the meditation, the filmed teaching will be shown, and a brief discussion will follow. Light refreshments will be served.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of meditation experience, and chairs are available, or you may bring your own cushion. There is no charge, but donations are welcome.

For more information, contact Paula and Tony Seikel at 775-3183 or seikel@ida.net or visit the website at portneufsangha.org to learn about all of the programs offered at the Sangha.

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It was one of those mornings. Crushed on to a bus, then a delayed train, battling with the thousands of other commuters making their way into the capital. I finally managed to slide into a seat on the Tube, only to engage in a passive-aggressive war of knees with the besuited manspreader next to me.

Finally, sweaty and stressed, I made it to my next destination. I slid into another seat, next to another man-in-suit, who was, thankfully, keeping his knees to himself. The lights changed and I closed my eyes

No, I didnt wake up in Zone 5. Instead, I was in a meditation studio, along with some other City types sitting quietly around me. There was nothing in the way of patchouli or beaded curtains here, though the furnishings were sleek and everyone was still in their business attire, although they had all removed their shoes. Chairs were blinkered so your neighbour couldnt distract you from the mood lighting and ambient music.

Inhere is the brainchild of Adiba Osmani, who worked at a senior level in large corporations for several years before deciding to launch her own venture. She discovered meditation on retreat in Thailand and was keen to implement its scientific benefits in modern society. So she opened a drop-in meditation centre in the financial heart of London.

I wanted a much broader audience, she says. I didnt want the same associations people generally have with meditation, whether its from the East, candles and the rest of it. This opens it up to a different market where people that wouldnt normally do it can do it.

City life inevitably means standing nose to nose with fellow commuters, dodging tourists on crowded pavements, and scrambling to claim a square foot of grass where you can eat your lunch-hour sandwich. Inhere has minimised the human interaction the meditation sessions feature audio guidance and soundscapes but no teachers to make small talk with, the website reassures us. For socially awkward types such as me, this is a relief.

Meditation is fast becoming big business. In 2015, MNDFL landed in New York, branding itself as the SoulCycle of meditation. The boutique drop-in studio, all Scandified exposed brick and natural light, was hailed by Vogue as the only quiet room in New York City.

Guests can use the online booking engine to reserve a cushion, for 30 or 45-minute sessions of Vedic, Kundalini or Theravada meditation, as well as specialist classes such as Sleep to help you unwind and Emotions to help you through a difficult time.

But how much would you pay for even five minutes of sanctuary? Well, at Inhere, the going rate is 2, or 20 for a half hour. Apparently even just a few minutes make a big difference a recent Canadian study found that just 10 minutes can help quell anxiety and turn off your internal dialogue. Previous studies have shown that it can alleviate stress and even improve brain function within just four days of practising.

Osmani says that businesspeople often come to meditation not just to relax but to enhance their cognitive ability. It starts from a productivity slant people talk about being able to focus and concentrate more. They latch on to that at the beginning, because they dont particularly want to admit that theyre really stressed. But more and more people are just being more connected to how they can have more influence over their own life.

And perhaps City workers need meditation even more than the rest of us. A study published earlier this year suggested that more than half of City workers are more stressed at home than they are in the office, as the culture of bringing work home becomes the norm.

More men appear to be warming to the idea of meditation. Digital consultant Dan Keegan is a newcomer. Before, working in the City, youd get laughed at if you talked about doing something like this. So I think the attitude has really changed. I can see particularly people in sales roles liking it they just want a little bit of peace and quiet, to switch off for a bit.

Erin Lumley works in marketing and says the drop-in nature of the studio appealed to her. It feels like a cold shower for the mind, she says.

I feel really refreshed and ready to focus on my work after it. I like that it caters for everyone, even if youve only got five minutes, or 30 minutes. This is almost like the equivalent of signing up for a gym membership, but for your mind.

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Mumbai: The city's ranking in the Swachh Survekshan this year dropped to the 29th spot from the 10th in 2016, but the civic administration does not seem to be making enough efforts to improve the same. For around a fortnight now, dry waste vehicles have not been servicing many localities in Mumbai. Residents said that they were taking efforts to segregate waste, but there were no vehicles coming to collect the dry waste. Several contracts for dry waste collection vehicles in the city have ended, but the BMC is yet to get new contractors in place. Maria D'souza, coordinator of the ALM 33 (Mount Mary-Kane Road, Bandra) said that there is a severe problem. "The junior officer in our ward has been helping us in getting the waste collected. There should have been adequate planning done and the BMC should not have waited till the time the contract expired," said D'souza. Bandra corporator Asif Zakeria said that he had been receiving several complaints from his locality of dry waste not being collected. "Dry waste collected occupies space and it cannot be left piling in such a manner for many days. The BMC needs to put its house in order before giving out notices to residents for segregation," said Zakeria. Many activists said that the purpose of the segregation excercise is getting defeated. "The dry waste collection vehicle has not been coming to our locality since the end of last month. There is no adequate interest and seriousness been shown in segregation of waste. With no vehicles, wet and dry waste gets mixed together," said Rajkumar Sharma from Chemur's Diamond Garden Residents Forum. Dry waste is collected from households in Mumbai and sent to 32 dry waste segregation centres. Many dry waste segregation centres employ rag-pickers who are involved in sorting. Once the sorting is done some items like plastic are shredded using the machines if the segregation centre has enough. However due to space constraints, the trash after it is sorted is sent to recyclers out of Mumbai. A senior civic official said, "The dry waste collection contracts were ideally to end in December but as we increased the number of trips the contracts lapsed earlier. We have started work to call for immediate tenders," said a civic official.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--"It was just a long dull pain and it lasted for hours," Justin Phillips said.

Phillips doesn't fit the the bill for someone with a heart issue.

"I thought that if I do this I'll be fine in the long run," Phillips said.

The 30-year-old and former Marine excercises, eats right and has no personal or family history of a heart condition.

"I get back on the bike and keep riding for a little bit and stop and it's now in my left arm, my shoulder, all the way down," Phillips said.

Last month while Phillips was in mile 33 of the 50 mile Tour de Toad in Conway, his heart hit the breaks. He left the track and headed to the hospital.

"I woke up to the doctor saying Mr. Phillips I'm afraid you've had a mild heart attack," Phillips said.

Phillips says his troponin levels had increased six times since they were first measured.

"What he said was the blood vessels around my heart constricted and just cut off the blood flow to my heart," Phillips said.

"Your body gives you those warning signs, its not just because it doesn't have anything better to do," Vickie Wingfield with the Arkansas Heart Foundation said.

Wingfield with the Arkansas Heart Foundation says Justin's case proves even younger people are just as much at risk for heart issues even without a history.

"It confirms my belief that it can happen to anyone at anytime, anywhere at any age," Wingfield said. Wingfield says new research proves 80 percent of cardiovascular disease can be prevented through excercise and diet.

Phillips now rehabs through the help of the Arkansas Heart Hospital monitering his heart while he exercises, if its up to him he'll have another race up his sleeve soon.

"Once I realize that everything is going to be fine I'm going to try to get back and knock out a triathlon or something," Phillips said.

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Due to a major and very tragic incident involving an Army tank and live ammunition that resulted in the deaths of two army soldiers, all public access to both Range East and Range West in Pembrokeshire has been suspended until further notice.

Update 13.00 Friday 16 June 2017 - Public Access to Range East has been restored for this coming weekend.

As people may have seen in the news, there has been a very serious and tragic incident involving live ammuntion and a British Army tank carrying out training at the Castlemartin Army Ranges. Two soldiers haveunfortunately died as a result of their injuries and a further two are in a serious condition in hospital as a consequence of the incident.

Due to ongoing investigations involving both the MoD, the police and the Health& Safety Executive, all public access to both Ranges East and West (including access to St Govan's) has been suspended until further notice with immediate effect.

The MoD and other investigating authorities are asking the public to stay away from the Ranges until the investigation is completed and the tanks involved can be removed. This restriction is likley to be in place over the coming weekend and possibly for several days. The exact nature of the incidenthas not yet been madeavailable to the public but is thought to involve a live training excercise involving atank and live ammunition.

Please observe all signs and notices and follow any instructions given by the Range staff at what must be a difficult time for them following the loss of two of their colleagues.

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Aurobindo ashram printing press goes solar The Hindu Sri Aurobindo Ashram Printing Press, located along the Beach Road, went solar on Friday. Puducherry Chief Secretary Manoj Parida inaugurated the unit. With a 50 kwh capacity solar panel installed on the rooftop of the building, the printing press will ...

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GURUGRAM: Union minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday urged chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar to change the name of Bhondsi ashram to "Chandra Shekhar Smriti Van", a day ahead of the launch of an eco-tourism and nature awareness centre there. Khattar will inaugurate the centre on Saturday, while Vardhan is the chief guest at the event.

Bhondsi ashram, which was once a farmhouse of former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, has been shrouded in controversy after the Haryana government took over parts of it in 1998. There was no work on the ashram done during the years of Congress rule . "I also feel it will be befitting tribute in the honour of great personality like Shri Chandra Shekhar. I shall be personally grateful if suitable instructions are issued in this regard," the Union minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences wrote to Khattar (a copy of the letter is with TOI).

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Before every Pony Sweat class, Emilia Richeson reminds the group gathered at her L.A. dance aerobics studiothat Pony Sweat is fiercely noncompetitive. With the ground rules set, shekicks out the jams and embarks on an hourlong class of body-positive, dance-based aerobics that would make Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons proud. Thats exactly what Richeson was aiming for when she started Pony Sweat out of her bedroom back in 2014. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I always loved aerobics, and have always been a big fan of a lot of 80s bands, so there was already an aesthetic that is close my heart, the 34-year-old dance instructortells Fast Company.Richard Simmons was always a role model in my family.

Richeson, a queer punk ray of sunshine, according to a press release, started attending Simmonss dance classes when she first moved to L.A. in 2006.Hes been such a huge influence on me. He created an inclusive space for people to express joy through dance, says Richeson. It was so powerful watching people open up and share where theywere at, what they were struggling with, and then all of us dancing together.

Richeson used exercise as a way to battle her depression, but she struggled to find a workout routine that she enjoyed, especially since Simmons had retired from his studio. A few friends encouraged her to come up with her own dance aerobics routine instead, and soon Pony Sweat was born. Pony Sweat the class came from a real need for connection and inspiration, she explains. Dancing to music I love makes me like being in my body.I want to offer a safe space for folks that feel that way, too.

She started putting on a weekly class of high-energy aerobic workouts soundtracked by a mix that ranges from the Cure to Santigold to Nine Inch Nails, Robyn, Prince, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and posting on Instagram about her #danceaerobicsisforfeminists.It was meant to be a venue for friends to come together and sweat it out to music we loved, she says. Eventually, folks started telling other folks, and I started teaching more classes to more people!

Her inclusive classes (Its for EveryBody, she says) have spread throughout Los Angeles as exercise junkies look for a way to whip up a sweat while having fun.

But dont call it a majorbusiness enterprise yet. Richeson is adamant that Pony Sweat is and will remain a labor of love, built on a punk/DIY ethos. She is also generally opposed to the idea of fitness as a money-making industry. It makes us feel like the next trendy workoutwill be the solution to achieving idealized body types that are sexist and racist, and promote the oppression of folks outside that ideal,' she says.

She adds that the promise to new instructors and trainers of immediate steady income is not always realistic, and that can put pressure on instructors to see financial gain as their only metric for success. That said, she is slowly and organically growing Pony Sweat. Shecurrently teaches classes at three locations, hosting 10-45 students per class, and is training a new teacher to help expand further.She is also hoping to reach people outside of the Los Angeles area, particularly in places where body-positive alternatives dont yet exist.

That mission isdirectly fromthe heart of the Pony Sweats everyone-is-welcome ethos. I want it to be a space for anyone who wants to belong to it, says Richeson, adding thattheres no experience necessary to get in on the fun. Pony Sweat is apractice in im-perfection, which I think is a very radical and necessary thing for us to practice.

In the meantime, shes launching her first official workout video,Pony Sweat: Volume 1. The nearly hourlong video will let people around the world throw on their favorite leotards and leg warmers and channel their inner Jane Fondas in their own living rooms while working out to Richesons routine. If sweating to the beat isnt your thing, though, Richeson doesnt mind. I hope everyone finds a way to like being in their body,she says.I think that moving your body is the best way in, so whatever way that is for youdo that!

Melissa Locker is a writer and world renowned fish telepathist.

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There was a point in my life when I was fully able to support my body weight. Aged eight, I came home from school and proudly showed my mother my blistered palms, having conquered all 10 monkey bars. I was flexible, too, and you'd often find me bending into a "crab" position during school lunchtimes.

Somewhere along the way, I lost the desire to fold backwards instantaneously - despite it being a real crowd-pleaser - and while I have dabbled in pull-ups at the gym, it's usually with the knee rest as an aid.

But then I noticed aerial aerobics classes cropping up on social media and on posters at the gym, and felt that old childlike hunger to bend, lift and fly through the air.

I got in touch with Flying Fantastic, set up in 2011 by husband-and-wife team Chris and Edel Wigan. The pair launched their own studio after returning from a year in Argentina. "It's very normal to do an aerial class over there," explains Edel. "But when we came back, we found there wasn't really anything similar."

At the time, aerial aerobics was available only as a 12-week course or a degree, but the Wigans wanted to offer more accessible drop-in classes. "Coming at it from a fitness angle, the emphasis is on how it helps your body and makes you stronger."

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OAKHURST Peggy Decker-Anderson reminds locals and visitors that Aqua Aerobics is happening at the Baker Swim Complex at Yosemite High School.

Classes are Monday through Friday from 8 to 9 a.m. through August 11th. The cost is $4 a day, $10 a week or $30 a month.*

See ya at the pool, says Peggy, who is returning as instructor for the sixth year.

Click here for the Aqua Aerobics schedules in PDF form.

The pool opened on Saturday, June 10 for the season, and the regular hours are Monday through Friday, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m., and on Saturday its 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

A Day Pass for anyone over a year old is $4 per person before 5 p.m. and $3 per person after 5 p.m. Theres a senior discount price of $3.50. Monthly, the cost is $40 per person each month or $80 per person for the season.

A family pass is available for $140 for up to 4 people, additional people are $20 per person up to six members. Lost wristbands can be replaced for $4 each.Admission fees are for swimmers only. Cash and checks are accepted.

The last day of the season is Saturday, Aug. 11.

More information on the Baker Swim Complex at Yosemite High School here.

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