Thursday News Roundup

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Yoga may help new-comers stick to New Year's resolution
http://www.wxow.com/story/30856848/2015/12/30/yoga-may-help-new-comers-stick-to-new-years-resolution
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"What you get in your practice on the mat translates to the rest of
your life off of the mat. There's so much that you can take into your
daily life and relationships."

Here Are The 10 Types Of Meditators: Which One Are You?
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-23103/here-are-the-10-types-of-meditators-which-one-are-you.html

Evolution Power Yoga to open New Years Day in a new, larger studio in Lancaster
http://lancasteronline.com/business/local_business/evolution-power-yoga-to-open-new-years-day-in-a/article_9bc61c96-af13-11e5-9538-ef0966084b26.html

Yoga chain picks up vacant Golden studio
http://www.businessden.com/2015/12/31/yoga-chain-picks-up-vacant-golden-studio/
"Kindness Yoga will move into Vital Yoga’s former studio in downtown
Golden on Monday after the space sat empty for less than a month.
"It’s the sixth Kindness Yoga location that company founder Patrick
Harrington has opened since launching the company in 2000 and the
first outside of Denver."

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Wife of Bikram Yoga guru stands by her man in sex harassment lawsuit
http://mynewsla.com/crime/2016/01/06/wife-of-bikram-yoga-guru-stands-by-her-man-in-sex-harassment-lawsuit/
"The wife of a yoga guru Wednesday defended her husband’s use of what
traditionally are considered derogatory words against women, saying he
reserves such remarks for training sessions and that the terms should
not be taken at face value.
"“He’s a comedian, he says many things,” Rajashree Choudhury, wife of
Bikram Yoga founder Bikram Choudhury, told a Los Angeles Superior
Court jury."

Namaste, Bitches: Online comedy series skewers the stereotype of the
spiritually pure yoga teacher
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/namaste-bitches-online-comedy-series-skewers-the-stereotype-of-the-spiritually-pure-yoga-teacher-a6799881.html
"I wasn't expecting the slapping-down that I received about six years
ago, while doing yoga teacher training at a north London studio. I had
asked the tutor, a revered man in late middle age with a long beard
and a costume of flowing white robes, what I thought was an innocent
question.
""Why," I enquired, "does it seem that Yogi Bhajan (the founder of a
modern style of Kundalini yoga, which he popularised in California in
the 1970s) is idolised as if he were a god? I thought we weren't
supposed to idolise other humans.""

From police chief to yoga practitioner
http://www.advertisernewssouth.com/article/20160106/NEWS01/160109982/From-police-chief-to-yoga-practitioner
"Sparta — Jan Wright has parlayed his 25 years of law enforcement into
a new career — yoga. The retired Hamburg Police Department chief draws
on his experience of dealing with people to inspire others through
practicing yoga."
"Wright eventually left the comfort of his television screen and took
his first class at his hometown YMCA in Hardyston. Wright delved
further seeking out Yoga Impact, a non-profit organization that
extends yoga to people in homeless shelters, jails and drug
rehabilitation program. Through Yoga Impact, Wright received his
E-RYT, Experienced Registered Yoga Training certificate."