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ClassPass has revolutionised the fitness space, but some are critical of its model.

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.

  • Melissa Singer

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Yoga teacher Beata Heymann says there is already an oversupply of teachers in the field.

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.

  • Angus Thompson
Yoga instructors are on a draft priority skills list for migrants but many trades have been left off so far.

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.

  • Angus Thompson
Eliza Hilmer may be forced to stop her yoga by donation classes on St Kilda beach after the council intervened.

‘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.

  • Cara Waters
Romanian guru Gregorian Bivolaru is escorted to a vehicle, after a hearing at the Romanian Police headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. French authorities arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organization Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 on suspicion of indoctrinating female followers for sexual exploitation. The Romanian guru at the heart of the Atman Yoga Federation was detained during a massive morning police operation across the Paris region. (AP Photo/Marian Ilie)

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.

  • Thomas Adamson
Hatha yoga combines gentle postures with deep breathing exercises.

Gentle yoga sessions could improve cancer survival rates

Hatha yoga has been found to reduce signs of inflammation in cancer patients.

  • Joe Pinkstone
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Shivani O’Brien takes an outdoor yoga class at Shelly Beach in Cronulla. A federal government sports survey shows more people are practising yoga than traditional sports such as golf, soccer, and tennis. 27 January, 2023. Photo: Brook Mitchell composite with graph showing popular sports over time

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.

  • Andrew Taylor
Wellmania can be a bed of nails.

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.

  • Cherie Gilmour
There are about 70 of poses that can be found on YouTube or through a practitioner.

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.

  • Evelyn Lewin
Sadhguru: enlightened but still human.

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?

  • Sarah Berry

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