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Excercise Shannon 5th May 2012 – Emergency Vehicle Convoy ( Part 1 ) – Video
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Sienna Miller takes up yoga
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Sienna Miller has taken up yoga to help with her pregnancy.
The 'Factory Girl' actress is currently expecting her first child with fianc Tom Sturridge and has recently begun practicing the relaxation and strengthening technique because she hates working out.
She said: 'I have been trying to do some pregnancy yoga as I'm definitely not a gym person.
'My mum started up one of the first yoga schools in London in the 70s, so I should probably utilise her expertise as I have really bad posture. But I think I'd probably kill her if she tried to tell me to sit up straight.'
Sienna thinks her skin looks much better since she got pregnant - though she is unsure whether that is due to her having quit smoking and drinking alcohol.
She added to Marie Claire magazine: 'My skin definitely looks better since I became pregnant - although not smoking or drinking has probably helped with that.
'Body-wise I've been slathering on Dr. Hauschka Blackthorn Body Oil to try to prevent stretch marks, which is gorgeous and certainly seems to have worked so far.'
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Laughter Yoga: Can Happiness Heal?
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When it comes to laughter yoga, faking it til you make it is just fine.
At least, that's what Vishwa Prakash said at the start of the session that HuffPost's health news editor Amanda Chan and I wandered into recently.
It was one of a few guidelines Prakash offered, as well as keeping our eyes locked on our fellow attendees, some 20 men and women dressed in street clothes and standing in a circle in his textile design company's midtown Manhattan offices.
And with that, we were off.
Prakash traded with other leaders who led us through several "exercises" -- we clapped, we milked imaginary cows, we blew up imaginary balloons, threw them on the ground, and exploded into laughter as we popped them with our feet. In between each set, we walked around clapping and chanting, "Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha!"
"It's bizarre, it's plain weird. Adults do not behave this way," said Sebastien Gendry, who founded the American School of Laughter Yoga, the country's largest laughter yoga training program.
"You laugh, you clap and you breathe," he continued. (You also drive imaginary bumper cars, pretend to be lions and hug perfect strangers.) "Suddenly you find yourself really laughing and you don't know why. It's fun, and you feel good."
The goal of laughter yoga is to breathe and to laugh, not because anyone has cracked a joke, but because laughter is a playful, social, contagious thing. The "yoga" label is a bit of a misnomer. There are no downward dogs or inversions, just people coming together, usually for free, for a short session of laughter. And it has become something of a global phenomenon.
According to Laughter Yoga International, a group led by the founder of Laughter Yoga and Mumbai-based physician Dr. Madan Kataria, there are about 6,000 laughter clubs across the globe. In the past decade, more than 400 have cropped up here in the U.S., and organizers expect a few thousand will celebrate "World Laughter Day" on Sunday.
How and why people find laughter yoga varies. Many come to connect with a community, Gendry said, others come for catharsis or to feel better physically.
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Area experts attempt to dispel myths about yoga
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A California-based research firm last month listed yoga studios as the fourth-fastest-growing industry in the United States.
Yoga (and Pilates) studios, according to IBISWorld, are proving to be recession-proof with 12.1 percent growth per year.
The study attributes the growth to a recent rise in interest in fitness. (Reports that the increasing interest is a result of this column are unconfirmed.)
Clearly yoga is as popular as ever around the South Sound, with dozens of studios offering everything from yoga in 105-degree rooms (hot yoga) to yoga on floating stand-up paddleboards (SUP yoga).
Still, Holly Menzies, who runs Tacomas Ashtanga Yoga studio, says many people still have misconceptions about yoga. These concerns very well could be keeping some people from trying an activity that can help them get fit, increase strength and flexibility and perhaps even alleviate nagging pain.
So, I asked Menzies and a few others to bust some yoga myths.
MYTH: I have to be flexible to do yoga.
I get this all the time, Menzies said. Its just not true. People see these really flexible people doing pretty advanced (poses) and they think I cant do that.
The truth is you do yoga to become more flexible.
MYTH: Yoga is easy.
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Jois: Yoga's latest extension
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The way Sonia Jones describes it, discovering the practice of Ashtanga yoga -- a method that, in its most basic form, combines focused breathing with a set sequence of postures -- is a powerful, heady experience.
"It's like when you first fall in love and want to go back and see your first love again -- it was like that," Jones said. "It wasn't just like going to the gym and taking a yoga class."
Last month, Jones opened Jois Yoga in Greenwich, the most recent of three studios she manages in conjunction with Salima Ruffin, an entrepreneur in San Diego, and the family members of Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois, the founder of the Ashtanga yoga method. Since 2008, Jois Yoga has opened studios in Sydney, Australia, and Encinitas, Calif., specializing in the traditional practice of Ashtanga -- meaning "eight-limbed" in Sanskrit -- yoga.
For Jones, an Australian-born former model, Greenwich resident and wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II, that initial love for Ashtanga grew out of pain: a blown disk in her back that left her numb from the waist down. Friends urged her to try yoga as a method of healing.
"I said, `Oh, I don't have time and it's so annoying to take the time to stop and do yoga,' and all those misconceptions," Jones said.
Jones, like many traditional Ashtanga practitioners, traveled to Mysore, India, to study with Pattabhi Jois, known to his followers as Guruji. Jois died in 2009.
Ashtanga yoga consists of "set sequences of yoga asanas, or postures, that are coordinated with the inhaling and exhaling breath," according to Valerie Schneiderman, the Ashtanga practitioner and owner/director of the Yoga Shala in Ridgefield. The poses follow six series of increasing difficulty, and students progress through the positions at their own pace. They don't move on to new poses until they have mastered the preceding ones.
"You could characterize the practice as being a practice where every movement is coordinated with an inhaling and exhaling breath," Schneiderman said. "The beautiful thing of a practice like this is that it's very grounding."
Jones' first leap into teaching and entrepreneurship grew organically, and the latest extension of Jois Yoga emerged when the group of practitioners she recruited locally became too large to practice comfortably in her Greenwich home.
"I wanted to take the myth away that Ashtanga is for very fit, strong people," Jones said. "You learn for your ability."
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Life-Coach Warning: story of Joanna, San Francisco (twisted life-coaching) – Video
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