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Students practice yoga during a class at The Toolbox, a studio in Durban. PHOTO COURTESY OF NOSIZWE MJI.

Sisters’ studio makes yoga accessible, promotes healing

Sara Garstka July 11, 2022

Durban, South Africa — Nosizwe Mji, co-founder of The Toolbox yoga studio, began her yoga journey following a near-fatal car accident in 2006, her last year at the University of Cape Town. After two...

AnnE Potter ’25 doing goat yoga at Hellerick’s Family Farm. PHOTO: ANNE POTTER ’25/THE HAWK

Guess ‘hooves’ doing yoga?

AnnE Potter November 16, 2021

Student tries out goat yoga for the first time As the goat climbed onto my back in the middle of a downward dog yoga pose, I remembered what the instructor, Donna Pastorok, told us before the class started:...

Nothing but a Rolex and a Speedo

Nothing but a Rolex and a Speedo

Olivia Clark December 3, 2019

How #MeToo men get away with it He got away with it. He was tried in the American justice system, and he got away with it. The new Netflix documentary “Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator,” reveals the scary...

Students participate in fitness classes at OPake Recreation Center.  PHOTO MATT BARRETT ’21/THE HAWK

St. Joe’s students lead O’Pake fitness classes

Alysa Bainbridge January 22, 2019

“How you guys feelin’ today? Good?” yelled a woman in printed leggings and a thick cotton headband to keep the flyaways from her ponytail out of her face. The upbeat remix of a pop hit that had...

Patrons did yoga with rescue puppies at SWEAT Fitness (Photo courtesy of Alex Hargrave ’20).

Chilling with canines

Alex Hargrave April 10, 2017

A first-timer’s trip to puppy yoga As college students, some of our biggest problems stem from trying to stay healthy while maintaining a busy schedule, and from missing our family and friends back...

Graphic by Luke Malanga 20.

Been There, Tried That: Aerial Yoga

Elana Valentin February 28, 2017

A novice explores a re-emerging trend What do you get when you combine the circus and yoga? You get aerial yoga, a reemerging trend that has been around since the yoga boom in the 1970s. Think traditional...

Been there tried that: The art of balance

Alex Karpinski November 8, 2016

Doing yoga in The Philadelphia Art Museum’s Great Stair Hall One train, an Uber, and $12.36 later, I was standing at the back of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, trying to find my way to the infamous...

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