Comments on: Santa Cruz High School ‘Glee’-fully Adds Non-Wussy Yoga to Curriculum

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Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:53:08 +0000

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By: Candice

Candice — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:16:31 +0000

I live in Santa Cruz. We are yogafanatics out here and boast a robust yoga community! We have 50,000 people out here but at least 5 studios and tons of teachers. Glad to hear SCHS added yoga, but am surprised it wasn’t there already

By: Kent Katich Eschews ‘Weird’ Yoga to Become NBA’s Guru Yogapreneur

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:35:19 +0000

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By: Kent Katich Eschews ‘Weird’ Yoga to Become NBA’s Guru Yogapreneur

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:35:19 +0000

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By: David Turner

David Turner — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:31:32 +0000

Wow, that is cool. I wish they had that when I was in high school. Of course thinking back, I am not sure I would have taken advantage of it at the time. But I never had the opportunity to find out one way or the other.

By: vm

vm — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:29:47 +0000

very cool. pretty much every private preschool program in nyc has tot yoga classes– in 10 years these kids will expect to have it in high school anyway. imagine having practiced yoga since age 3! am loving that show glee too…

By: Doniree

Doniree — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:40:04 +0000

I’m in a yoga teacher training program right now, and this is actually something I’ve considered pursuing once I’m certified. I think this is a GREAT thing for high schoolers and hope to somehow be involved in that.

By: Bob Weisenberg

Bob Weisenberg — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:01:30 +0000

This was very interesting to me because I played basketball and tennis in high school, and, many years later, I took up Yoga to become more flexible for tennis. I wrote about what happened next on my website:

“I am a serious tennis player. You might recall that all this Yoga stuff started for me when I took Hatha Yoga classes to improve my flexibility for tennis. Yoga was great for this. I did become much more flexible and it did improve my tennis.

What happened next was unexpected. I found that the philosophical practices of Yoga, especially focusing on the present moment, and detaching my ego from the results, had a far more beneficial impact on my tennis than the flexibility. The Yoga of the mind had a bigger effect on my tennis performance than the Yoga of the body.”

You can see why I frequently argue that all forms of Yoga are good, no matter how much focused on the exercise, because I personally experienced its value as exercise and the fact that it can open the door to all the other aspects of Yoga.

Eventually I wrote a poem called “Yoga Tennis” to explain the impact the ancient texts have had on my tennis playing!

http://yogademystified.com/yoga-tennis/

So I applaud Yoga in sports programs. Thanks for the blog.

Bob Weisenberg
http://YogaDemystified.com