This is cool. Check out the pics of workers doing yoga on stacks of plywood.
From the article: "Here, contractors and clerks limber up, before they lumber up. It's a program called Yoga for the Construction Industry.....
"Am I standing squarely while I'm drilling a hole, rather than drilling it over to the side?", he asks, as he mimics the motion of drilling. "Can I actually drill it straight ahead where I have the most energy and the most power."
It's California!
Beauty!
To ease tension and stress while taking public transit, some Israelis get yoga instruction on board.http://media.www.dailycollegian.com/media/storage/paper874/news/2007/02/22/News/Israeli.Travelers.Learn.Yoga.During.Bus.Ride-2735091.shtml
Forgive me, regular customers, but since I don't go to McDonald's anymore (loved it as a kid, but as an adult it makes me ill), I didn't realize they'd added Asian chicken salad to the menu, and were offering yoga DVDs to customers.May 2006 issue of Fortune Magazine says the "Asian salad [is] made of orange-glazed chicken, snow peas, red peppers, mandarin oranges, almonds and green soybeans known as edamame. People who buy the salad as part of a "Go Active! Happy Meal" for adults are given one of four 15-minute exercise DVDS, including one that teaches yoga. "Yoga is being roped into helping McDonald's dodge the obesity charges levelled at it. So yoga and Super Size Me are on opposite sides of the obesity debate now?Actually, maybe yoga is on both sides.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/17/news/companies/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm
Today, MSNBC's Mental Health page reports on weird new "laughter yoga"in the article, "Laughter yoga no joke for fad's followers."
Forcing yourself to crack up in a class sounds pretty odd--so does muttering gibberish for a cool-down (not kidding). And what does this have to do with yoga?
So far, this fad is restricted to Laguna Beach, California.
But I do have to laugh at the headline that follows this one. Remember, this is the mental health category on MSNBC: "Botched penis surgery ends in mailbomb to doc."
Freaky yoga, suicide, depression, schizophrenia management, and penis surgery--you'd think mental health (and by association, yoga) was just for psychos.