Yoga helped curb job stress, aided knee surgery
recuperation
Sue
Knollenberg of Lakeville had a history of arthritis
and chronic pain. She started taking yoga classes
and in July 2005, had both knees replaced. While she
recuperated at home, she worked part time in her job
as a development director. Two to three weeks after
surgery, Knollenberg, 53, began taking restorative
yoga, altering postures to accommodate her joints.
"As I continued to get better, I continued to
do yoga at Yoga Path, maybe two to three times a week.
It helped me with regaining my flexibility, my strength.
Classes are an hour or 11/2 hours long. They follow
the yoga of Baron Baptiste.
Yoga class to benefit childhood hunger -
Downtown Athletic Club in Hazleton will hold Dec.
18 event to help CEO
The Hazleton Downtown Athletic Club will be holding
a charity yoga class to benefit the Commission of
Economic Opportunity's (CEO) Ending Childhood Hunger
program on Dec. 18.
Michele Fisher, manager of the Hazleton Downtown
Athletic Club, said she wanted to do something special
for the holiday season by having some type of event
to benefit a local organization.
After discussing her idea with the Hazleton Downtown
Athletic Club's owner, Kevin Lamont, he suggested
she work with the CEO, in reference to all the work
they do on Thanksgiving.
Drugs and yoga - Elephant Pharm's newest
store in Los Altos offers alternative treatments along
with regular medicine
Elephant
Pharm -- a drugstore where customers can get a facial
and Chinese herbs as well as conventional prescriptions
-- is hoping to get as huge in Silicon Valley as it
is in Berkeley.
With a fresh injection of cash from investors, the
company that bills itself as "the drug store
chain that prescribes yoga" opened its third
Bay Area store in Los Altos last weekend.
