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The ‘Uber Eats of fitness’: What your $10 gym class is really costing
Fitness app ClassPass makes booking group classes such as Pilates more convenient, and often cheaper. But studio owners say it’s killing the local industry.
- by Melissa Singer
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Skills shortage
Bridge too far: Yoga teachers say migration need is a stretch
Jobs and Skills Australia has defended placing yoga instructors on its draft core skills migration list, while several building trades don’t make the cut.
- by Angus Thompson
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Skills shortage
Yoga teachers make draft core skills visa list, but not tradies
Despite the nation’s housing crisis, yogis, martial artists and dog handlers are among the occupations to have beaten construction trades to a spot on a draft priority skills list.
- by Angus Thompson
‘It’s the public using public land’: Free yoga faces council threat to shut down
A weekly free or by-donation yoga class on St Kilda beach is in danger of having to shut down after Port Phillip Council said it had to limit numbers to 15 people or only run it four times a year.
- by Cara Waters
Yoga ‘guru’ who promised enlightenment arrested for sexual abuse
To his followers across Europe, he was a guide to a higher state of consciousness. He was also a master manipulator.
- by Thomas Adamson
Gentle yoga sessions could improve cancer survival rates
Hatha yoga has been found to reduce signs of inflammation in cancer patients.
- by Joe Pinkstone
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Fitness
Rise of the downward dog: Australia’s most popular sports revealed
More adults are practising yoga than playing soccer, golf or tennis, as individual activities squeeze out traditional team sports.
- by Andrew Taylor
Opinion
Health
Why our wellness obsession can be a bed of nails
We need to get back to a stage where we accept that not all pain can be eliminated.
- by Cherie Gilmour
Yoga for your face? It’s not as silly as it sounds
Face yoga can have beneficial effects in terms of improving lymphatic drainage, but the experts are divided when it comes to prevention or reduction of wrinkles.
- by Evelyn Lewin
He’s among the biggest celebrity gurus. And he wants to ‘craft your destiny’
What is it about Sadhguru that has not only grabbed the attention of millions of Instagram followers but that of Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra and Tom Brady?
- by Sarah Berry
‘It’s just exercise’: after a 28-year ban, Alabama could allow yoga in public schools
A proposed bill would allow schools and students to make their own decisions about yoga classes but public schoolteachers would be forbidden from saying “namaste”.
- by Jacey Fortin
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