Yoga
- Opinion
- Family
I was the mother of holiday invention ... until my kids went feral and I went to yoga
But let me tell you this: Yoga is for wimps.
- Cherie Gilmour
Latest
- Opinion
- Wellbeing
If this is the only way to be ‘well’, then I’ll take early death
Visitors flocked to this wellness festival seeking answers and looking for ways to optimise their health. I used to be one of them.
- Sarah Berry
Yoga at 5am and no meat: The wellness holiday in hot demand
Roll out your mat, disconnect from tech and hit “pause” on your day-to-day with an immersive yoga retreat.
- Paul Ewart
Feeling low or anxious? Why moving your body is so good for mental health
Exercise, however small, is the one strategy that all mental health professionals endorse for treating low to moderate depression and, best of all, there are no negative side effects. Now we know why.
- Erik Vance
- Investigation
- Trends
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
- Exclusive
- 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.
- Angus Thompson
- Exclusive
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Thomas Adamson
Gentle yoga sessions could improve cancer survival rates
Hatha yoga has been found to reduce signs of inflammation in cancer patients.
- Joe Pinkstone