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Yoga practitioners find many benefits along the ‘journey’

The burning Indian fragrance is an incense called nan champa, and the music that sets the mood is a mixture of Kundalini meditation music. The lights are low, and the moment Shannon Workman Lanier starts the class, all chatter becomes a sudden, focused quiet. Lanier has been practicing yoga for 10 years, but it wasn’t until this past summer that she became a certified yoga instructor through ...

Teacher takes yoga to the great outdoors

Ruth Bancroft Garden hosting May sessions.

Teacher develops chair yoga program for students

When most people think of yoga, they think of pretzel poses, gym clothes and floor mats.

Positive alternative

Evonne Mandella was seeking an exercise program that would help improve her physical well-being that did not conflict with her Christian beliefs. She ruled out yoga as a possibility, because she didn’t feel it met her spiritual needs. In her search, she came upon a workout routine developed by Laurette Willis called PraiseMoves. Her search had found an answer.

Asheville area fitness calendar for the next few weeks.

WHITE SQUIRREL RACE: 5K and 10K races 8 a.m. Saturday. Check in at Brevard Music Center’s Strauss Auditorium. Register at www.brevardrotary.org . $25 age 19-64, $20 students and seniors. Fee $5 more after May 20. Also Firecracker Run July 4 and Flight of the Vampire Oct. 27.