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Article: Yoga Adapts for Changing Times
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- February 19, 2004
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MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
02-19-2004
Dateline: ALBANY, N.Y.
Hot yoga. Tot yoga. Power yoga. Disco yoga. Yoga Kickboxing. Fat-blasting yoga.
Years after the ancient Eastern discipline caught on big in the United States, yoga is proving to have a suitably limber foothold here. Not only are more people taking up yoga, but it is being geared for American tastes. There is yoga for dieters, for jocks, even for new moms and their babies.
"Yoga is evolving to meet cultural needs," said Yoga Alliance president Hansa Knox Johnson. "We have people who have different kinds of energies. Some of them are go-go, some are kind of more restless, some are more heavy, sedentary. So ...