Fellow YogaDorks… Do we have any Canucks in the house? Here is your mission should you choose to accept it: Continuing today’s theme of “giving back”… This Sunday February 22 will see the world’s largest fundraiser involving yoga to promote awareness and to raise money for arthritis research. Power of Movement, the organization behind it [...]
Yoga Bear has a good post alerting us to the new UK initiative to install a regulatory Council and registry for alternative medicine practitioners (announced this week on BBC News). Spearheaded by Maggie Dunn, co-chairman of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), the body “will not judge clinics on whether therapies are effective, but [...]
There are some lucky city workers up in Attleboro, MA! (well, we’re not sure they think so, but aanyway…) The state has given the Department of Public Health a $4,000 grant to fund exercise programs, and over 50 percent of the workers surveyed suggested yoga! The $4,000 award from the Department of Public Health is [...]
Just when fatwas were getting you down…good news! Sorry for the lengthy post…but it’s good news! We need good news! The NY Times reports today that Donna Karan (yep the DKNY fashion designer Donna Karan) is donating $850,000 to Beth Israel Hospital in New York City and taking over the cancer-treatment floor to turn it into [...]