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Last autumn, as the leaves turned, I felt a cloak drape over my shoulders, a leaden, winter cloak weighing me down. And rather than being able to shrug it off, it came with me everywhere. I was able to feel the threads lighten when I was laughing, or crying, but was unable to cast it off completely.

It was almost a year since my father's death aged 60 after a long illness. In that year I'd gone from numb shock nothing had prepared me for this expected departure to deep, dizzying sadness, where I understood what other people who had experienced grief meant when they wrote of the sky turning from blue to black.

Slowly, I was able to enjoy the memories of the time we had spent together while my dad was sick: the hundreds of games of chess we'd played (I always lost, even when he was very ill indeed with cancer, his slim frame so undernourished that his bones jutted out, he would trounce me into checkmate) and his obsession and delight with food as eating became increasingly painful.

His requests for ice-cream combinations that may be for sale in the best gelaterias in Italy but aren't readily available in Nottingham; his rhapsodies over toffee pavlova and his theory that McDonald's had very deliberately set out to corner the market of people who want to eat but have lost their teeth. The trip to the country fair at Abergavenny, his childhood home in Wales, where there was still an annual garden-on-a-plate competition, and the most beautiful memory of his pride and delight at meeting my nephew, then a tiny baby, who shared his name, William.

I didn't know that grief commonly returns, that this was my body marking the anniversary of the death of my dad the year before. It was with this sadness that I arrived one day in October at a yoga studio, neither strong nor flexible, surrounded by people whose bodies seemed as lithe as dancers' (I've found out since that some of them are dancers).

I'd love to be able to say it was some kind of personal peace-finding mission that brought me to the yoga mat, but I wasn't nearly conscious enough to realise that. All I knew was that my mind always full of idle chatter was whirring at great speed, screaming so loudly I'm almost surprised other people couldn't hear it. Far from yoga magically stilling my mind, it continued apace through my practice. But at least when I was on the yoga mat I was aware of the constant humming: much of the rest of the time I was so sucked up in my thoughts I couldn't even see them repeating themselves in my head time and time again, hundreds of thousands of times. I would hide in the corner, wishing myself invisible I didn't want anyone to notice me and my not-touching-toe ways. I had no idea how to make the postures, known by their Sanskrit term, asanas, look graceful: it was the most I could do to complete a class. I would take the child's pose, with my chest and forehead resting on the ground and my heels together, often, yet by the end of each practice my clothes would be drenched with sweat.

But something kept drawing me to my mat. Somehow, doing something where I didn't expect myself to achieve or be excellent gave me a sense of freedom. I had no expectations; this was just for me. And slowly I started to see small changes in my body: I felt lighter, more free, and it wasn't simply just a case of surviving class, I could actually feel my body, check whether I was stacking my joints, have some awareness of whether I was locking in my core.

I started going to workshops run by the studio, Hot Power Yoga in Clapham, south west London. First a beginners' workshop, where I was so full of questions about how yoga has effects on the emotional side that I signed up for a teaching foundation workshop. Still, I wanted more, and at the beginning of this year I signed up for HPY's teacher training course. I had no plan to teach yoga. I was adamant that it was simply to deepen my own practice, and remember telling the studio founder Dylan Ayaloo, and his co-facilitator Craig Norris that I was no yogi. "There are things I'm very good at. Yoga is not one of them," I told them.

This is not the story of a graceful transition from duckling to swan. The training was intense, and at times I found myself frustrated with my body. In all yoga postures there is a sense of tadasana, meaning shoulders being low and back. I spent a lot of time hunting for tadasana in my downwards-facing dog, a fundamental posture where the body forms an upside down V shape, but it kept eluding me. My posture, from many years hunched over a computer, leaned more towards "desk-asana" and I remember feeling emotional when I looked in the mirror and saw that my shoulders were so close to my ears when I was standing upright, the chances of them suddenly lowering when I was half-inverted were slim. We learnt about anatomy and the asanas; the effects they have on strengthening and flexibility. But this was the very surface of the course. More importantly, I learnt about me: to watch the whirring that goes around in my head, gain some distance from it and see the patterns that play out and affect my life, to recognise that this is not who I am.

I saw that I give myself a really hard time by spending so much time trying not to make mistakes. And I recognised that the biggest mistakes I have made haven't turned out as badly as I imagined, they've been the things I've learnt the most from something I can't regret. I'm a real striver, and experienced deeper freedom learning that I'll never be perfect: sometimes it's good simply to congratulate myself on where I'm going right.

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Washington, June 11 (ANI): A new study has suggested that doing yoga for as little as 20 minutes may be able to boost your brain power.

Researchers found that subjects who participated in a single yoga session had better speed and accuracy scores on working memory and inhibitory control tests than after they tried an aerobic exercise session of the same length.

These tests are indicative of a person's ability to maintain focus, as well as absorb and remember new information, and aerobic exercises had previously been shown to boost scores in those areas.

In a press release, lead author Neha Gothe, a professor of kinesiology, health and sport studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, explained that Yoga is an ancient Indian science and way of life that includes not only physical movements and postures but also regulated breathing and meditation.

Thought the practice involves an active attentional or mindfulness component, she said, its potential benefits have not been thoroughly explored.

In the study, 30 female undergraduate students were instructed to do a 20-minute session of Hatha yoga, which involved seated, standing and supine positions. The exercises involved relaxing different muscle groups, regulated breathing and isometric contractions, meaning the joint angle or the muscle length does not change during the process. Meditation and deep breathing were also involved.

The subjects were also instructed to complete a 20-minute aerobic exercise where they walked or jogged on a treadmill. The incline and speed was adjusted until the person maintained a 60 to 70 percent maximum heart rate-which had previously been shown to stimulate cognitive abilities in other studies-throughout the session.

But no significant improvements on working memory and inhibitory control scores were seen after the aerobic exercise session.

On the other hand, right after the yoga session people improved their reaction times and accuracy on the tests.

Gothe said that that following yoga practice, it appears that the participants were better able to focus their mental resources, process information quickly, more accurately and also learn, hold and update pieces of information more effectively than after performing an aerobic exercise bout.

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Are there are any limits to the benefits of yoga? Apparently not as the ancient exercise favoured by celebs has been found to significantly improve brain function after one 20 minute work out.

Researchers at the Wayne State University found that people performed better in cognitive tests for both speed and accuracy after just one 20 minute Hatha yoga session.

'It appears that following yoga practice, the participants were better able to focus their mental resources, process information quickly, more accurately and also learn, hold and update pieces of information more effectively than after performing an aerobic exercise bout,' explained lead researcher Neha Gothe, a professor of kinesiology, health and sport studies.

The small study looked at the performance of 30 female, undergraduate students on cognitive tests after doing a 20 minute yoga session, which included some meditation, and after a 20 minute workout on a treadmill.

The study found the aerobic exercise didn't improve the memory or brain function of those involved, whereas the scores improved after the yoga session.

So why does it work?

The results can be explained by a number of factors.

'The breathing and meditative exercises aim at calming the mind and body and keeping distracting thoughts away while you focus on your body, posture or breath. Maybe these processes translate beyond yoga practice when you try to perform mental tasks or day-to-day activities,' explained Gothe.

Reduced anxiety and stress and an enhanced sense of self-awareness may also contribute to doing better on the cognitive tests.

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Yoga-wear retailer Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX:LLL.TO - News) has grown by leaps and bounds since its first store opened in Vancouver in 1998, but the company has hit several quality control snags as it struggles to keep shelves stocked.

Meanwhile, skyrocketing demand for Lululemon clothing in the past five years has produce quarterly earnings that consistently impress investors, but has also left some customers empty-handed.

Sept. 28, 2011 RCMP issues a warning against buying counterfeit products after about 100 fake Lululemon items were seized at a house party in Point Edward, Ont.

Dec. 1, 2011 Lululemon's third-quarter profits rise 51 per cent to US$38.8 million and sales jump 31 per cent as CEO Christine Day says "unmet sales demand" was a challenge for its stores.

Jan. 6, 2012 Founder Chip Wilson announces he will resign as chief innovation and branding officer near the end of the month, but remain as chairman.

March 22, 2012 A slate of new products could pressure profits in the first quarter and beyond, Day warns investors, saying the company planned to lower margins and not shuffle the costs down to consumers.

June 7, 2012 Lululemon says after a product shortage the previous year, it now has notably more yoga wear than it can sell, with the value of its inventory rising 67 per cent.

March 18, 2013 Lululemon pulls its hip-hugging black Luon pants from store shelves due to a problem with the sheerness of the material. The recall represents about 17 per cent of its women's bottoms products, and the shortage cuts into sales.

March 21, 2013 The company says it expects to lose between US$12 million and $17 million of revenue in the first quarter because of the recall and that earnings would be reduced by 11 to 12 cents per share.

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Doing yoga for as little as 20 minutes may be able to boost your brain power.

Subjects who participated in a single yoga session had better speed and accuracy scores on working memory and inhibitory control tests than after they tried an aerobic exercise session of the same length. These tests are indicative of a person's ability to maintain focus, as well as absorb and remember new information, and aerobic exercises had previously been shown to boost scores in those areas.

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"Yoga is an ancient Indian science and way of life that includes not only physical movements and postures but also regulated breathing and meditation," lead author Neha Gothe, a professor of kinesiology, health and sport studies at Wayne State University in Detroit, said in a press release. "The practice involves an active attentional or mindfulness component but its potential benefits have not been thoroughly explored."

According to the 2012 "Yoga in America" market study, 8.7 percent of U.S. adults or 20.4 million people practice yoga in the U.S. About 62.8 percent of American yogis are between 18 and 44, and the vast majority -- 82.2 percent -- are women.

An additional 44.4 percent of Americans consider themselves "aspirational yogis" and want to try yoga sometime in the future.

Thirty female undergraduate students were instructed to do a 20-minute session of Hatha yoga, which involved seated, standing and supine positions. The exercises involved relaxing different muscle groups, regulated breathing and isometric contractions, meaning the joint angle or the muscle length does not change during the process. Meditation and deep breathing were also involved.

The subjects were also instructed to complete a 20-minute aerobic exercise where they walked or jogged on a treadmill. The incline and speed was adjusted until the person maintained a 60 to 70 percent maximum heart rate -- which had previously been shown to stimulate cognitive abilities in other studies -- throughout the session.

However, in this study, after the aerobic exercise session there was no significant improvements on working memory and inhibitory control scores.

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