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It helps to keep the kids – and their parents – occupied.

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

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Big wellness now rivals big pharma in servicing a market interested in biohacking and solutions for optimising health.

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
The link between exercise and good mental health outcomes is strong. Even a walk around the block will help improve mood.

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
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
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
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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