It's a moment Jillian Troth recalls whenever she's having a bad day at school, not getting along with a friend or simply not feeling her best.

Earlier this year, the 10-year-old stood in the Warrior II pose, arms outstretched parallel to the floor, one thigh extended outward, the other leg bent at the knee, with her mother, Johanna Frank, behind her. As Frank placed her hands on her daughter's upper arms, Marianne Impal's words floated around them, conjuring up a day where Jillian woke up and didn't feel like going to school. She'd done badly on a test the day before, none of the clothes she tried on fit well, and her friends were being mean to her. ... As Impal layered one challenging scenario atop another, she encouraged Jillian to feel how much she disliked herself in those moments, then asked her mom to push down on her arms. They collapsed effortlessly at Jillian's side.

Impal, a certified yoga instructor, then created a different scenario as Jillian again adopted the pose: This time, she woke up excited for school with just the right outfit to wear. As the day wore on, everything kept going right, from the many friends who made her feel included to the good reviews she got from her teacher. When her mom finally pushed down on her arms, they wouldn't budge, lowering only slightly the more pressure Frank applied.

"I usually think about that class and how good I felt and I just feel good about myself," says Jillian, of the lessons she took from the mother-daughter empowerment workshop taught by Impal.

"It was amazing how much strength it took to push down on her arms when she had a positive outlook as opposed to a demoralizing outlook," says Frank, of Doylestown. "It really enforced the idea of what a powerful outlook can do in terms of strength and self-esteem."

The message is part of a broader mission that Impal, a yoga teacher for more than 12 years, says she wishes she could bring to girls everywhere.

For now, the Doylestown resident is starting in her backyard. On Saturday, she will launch Y.E.S. Yoga, a training she developed specifically for teens and pre-teens to give them tools to live a positive and healthier lifestyle through the mind-body discipline.

While she has been teaching workshops incorporating empowerment themes and tools for years, Y.E.S. (Youth Empowerment 4 Self-esteem) is now her exclusive program. Impal will offer a Y.E.S. Yoga workshop for girls ages 10 through 15 at Cornerstone's TreeHouse Studio in New Hope on Saturday, the first of several she plans to bring to the area, while also certifying other yoga instructors to teach the confidence-boosting class.

"Yoga itself is known as a practice. When you practice something over and over, when you start to get it, when you feel like you're finally achieving something, that's where the empowerment comes from," says Impal, who also teaches vinyasa and hatha yoga at Cornerstone in Doylestown. "This is about practice makes possible. I want girls to get rid of practice makes perfect ... to know instead that practice makes anything possible."

Beyond incorporating strategic yoga poses with Fierce Pose, for instance, one of the more strenuous postures, she encourages girls to think of a particular challenge in their lives as they go deeper into the pose, using their ability to hold it for longer than they imagined as a metaphor for the strength to take on life's struggles rather than run from them Impal also includes self-esteem activities, journaling and stress-relief tactics. And she sends each girl home with her signature Y.E.S. Kit, a red keepsake box featuring a meditation CD for kids and teens, positive affirmation cards and a gratitude journal, among other items, that she initially designed for her own daughters, Nicole, now 13, and Renee, 15, as they approached their teenage years.

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THE poor turnout from Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) employees at the local authoritys aerobics session to kick off a two-day carnival has irked Petaling Jaya mayor Datuk Mohamad Roslan Sakiman.

The carnival, held at the Kelana Jaya lake over the weekend, was part of MBPJs celebration of the citys sixth anniversary.

Maybe people are staying up to watch the Euro 2012 matches, but the turnout of council employees should have been higher.

All of us could always do with a little bit more exercise, he said.

Even from the health department and director Dr Chitra Davi N. Vadivellus participation, only a handful of the department staff turned up to exercise, said Roslan.

With 1,700 council staff, it should not be impossible to get at least 500 to take part in the morning exercise.

Compared with the usual turnout in Taman Jaya, this mornings participation was poor. I hope to see more staff coming for the aerobic sessions, he added.

Roslan said he usually walked in the evening but when his schedule did not permit outdoor exercise, he worked out on the treadmill.

As part of the effort to get more people to take part, he was mulling over the possibility of getting more celebrities, such as actor Remy Ishak, to lend support in the morning aerobics sessions.

The council had also organised other activities for the carnival such as an action song competition among Petaling Jaya schools, an auto show and sports competitions at the MBPJ sports facilities in SS7.

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MIAMI: Alberto Perez started out as a street performer and then an aerobics teacher in Colombia, making extra cash on the side teaching the wives of businessmen how to dance in nightclubs in his hometown, California.

Today, he stands at the centre of the Zumba exercise craze, having helped transform Zumba Fitness, a private company, into a rapidly growing fitness empire with heavyweight investor backing.

"I'm not a businessman, but I knew this had the potential to be something special," said Perez, who along with two Colombian associates founded the Miami-based company. Zumba, a Latin dance-inspired aerobics workout, has exploded from a Miami-gym phenomenon to infomercial and DVD smash hit into a global craze with some 12 million people taking classes every week in at least 125 countries. Zumba Fitness now boasts being the largest branded fitness programme in the world.

Started on a shoestring budget in a Miami garage nearly 11 years ago, Zumba Fitness now has more than 200 employees, and a pair of New York investment firms are betting the craze has staying power.

What began as a company focused on fitness has evolved into a lifestyle and entertainment brand combining e-commerce, apparel and music, and a sought-after outlet for stars like hip-hop artists Pitbull and Wyclef Jean and reggaeton singer Don Omar who have turned to Zumba to promote their music.

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Zumba got its start by chance in the 1980s. Perez, who is known as Beto, was eking out a living as a street performer and salsa and merengue nightclub dancer known for his boyish model looks and muscular physique. One day the owner of a nearby gym called and asked if Perez could stand in for an injured aerobics teacher. He agreed but did not mention he had never done aerobics and rushed out and bought a copy of Jane Fonda's Workout Book. His fitness career was born.

Then a technology entrepreneur, Perlman lost his job in the dot-com bust two years later and was struggling with what career move to make next. Perlman said growing instructor and student base is the firm's top priority, with a goal of reaching 100 million students. The company has also launched its own line of brightly colored clothing, Zumba footwear and a glossy magazine named "ZLife", all designed in its Miami office.

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Yoga is an exquisite form of exercise, but you need to know how to perform poses (asanas) to participate. With electronics being so popular, a great way to learn yoga poses is by getting excellent apps for your electronics. I will highlight the best apps for numerous electronics, including the iPhone, Kindle Fire, and Nintendo Wii.

iPhone: Free to $9.99

If you have an iPhone there are numerous apps you can get to teach you the correct yoga postures. Hatha Yoga: your portable Yoga studio is a supreme selection that you can easily download for $9.99. This app allows you to take a yoga class wherever you want, and voice instruction is included. For free you can get the Yoga Relax app that comes with calming music and high quality video. Other apps for the iPhone include the following:

Yoga Trainer Pro: $9.99

Long Deep Breathing: $0.99

A Prenatal Yoga: $0.99

Yoga Weight Loss: $0.99

Yoga at Home: Learn Beginner Yoga: Free

iPad, MAC and Kindle Fire: Free

If you own an iPad, Mac or Kindle Fire, you can get All-in Yoga HD free of charge. This is an awesome app that includes instructional photos for 250 yoga poses. It also includes a timer, music and voice instruction. This app is also available for the Android and Samsung mobile phone.

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He's starting over. At age 61.

But Greg Davis' motor is running as fast as it did when he first took an assistant coaching job at Barbe High School in Louisiana in 1973. He's still among the first to arrive at the office every morning after a quick, 14-mile drive from his new home. His voice rises when he discusses the potential of his fifth-year senior at quarterback, whom he regards as a "bigger Major Applewhite."

Actually he's starting up where he abruptly left off a year and a half ago, after 38 seasons of coaching.

Davis who was a polarizing figure as Mack Brown's offensive coordinator for 13 years, through the 2010 season has returned to college football, where he belongs, even though he has changed jobs, donated many of his burnt orange clothes to neighbors and moved to a place so cold that his school played its spring game a year ago on a field covered by snow.

Texas fans no longer have Greg Davis to kick around. The Iowa Hawkeyes can do that if they like when he starts calling plays in the Big Ten and lining up what has been perceived as a stodgy Iowa offense in an empty backfield and working his no-huddle magic.

Davis is back home in a football environment even though he's a thousand-plus miles from Austin. But he's content with his station in life, an invigorated, transplanted Texan who quickly shook off the disappointment of his firing after a highly successful run with the Longhorns punctuated by one really horrific season at the end.

For a year, he considered other offers, taught clinics for Auburn's Gene Chizik and Florida's Will Muschamp and talked with the Houston Texans' Gary Kubiak about a position but decided to spend most of his time with his wife, Patsy, and their three grandchildren in the Dallas area.

Finally, in February, he accepted a new job for the first time since he arrived in Austin with Brown from North Carolina in 1998. Iowa's Kirk Ferentz had listened to sales pitches on Davis' behalf from Ferentz's previous offensive coordinator, Ken O'Keefe, and the Miami Dolphins' new head coach, Joe Philbin, who was a graduate assistant under Davis at Tulane. Philbin also discussed hiring Davis before adding Mike Sherman and O'Keefe to his Dolphins staff.

But Davis is happy where he is. Life goes on.

Surely he was angry and bitter when he was forced out at Texas?

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