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If you're familiar with weight lifting, you've probably seen a variety of methods.

A series of dynamic hybrid yoga classes, which can aid weight loss and rehabilitate injuries, is taking the local fitness scene by storm.

As 500-pound Franklin Community High School freshman Eric Ekis works to take control of his health, he's pulling his family along with him.

I paused, standing on the naked plywood subfloor in the house I had owned for exactly 31 days, which had been undergoing renovations since my partner and I moved in, and which I had lately begun referring to as The Mistake.

The Burlington Yoga Conference began Saturday at UVM's Davis Center. The event gives participants a chance to connect the mind body and soul through workshops they may not have access to on a daily basis.

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Three print makers startled the senses of the art-viewing public in Billings at last Friday's record-breaking Rocky Mountain College Fall Art Show, "Steve Kuennen Buffalo Art Press," featuring Robin Earles, her husband, Steve Kuennen, and their student, Brad Hines.

By Lynn Langway From Life & Beauty Weekly If your keys keep playing hide-and-seek and you can't recall the name of your daughter's latest BFF, what should you do? Occasional memory blips are "extremely normal", especially for busy moms, according to Barry Gordon, M.D., PhD, professor of neurology and cognitive science at Johns Hopkins School of ... (more)

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Four years after the tea party rocked the political world by ousting several prominent Republicans in Congress, the ultra-conservative movement finds itself... By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press Four years after the tea party rocked the political world by ousting several prominent Republicans in Congress, the ... (more)

Her long hair hanging to cover her face, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg appears silently on-stage, looking like a hybrid of a white-tuxedoed Vegas act and a ghost from The Grudge .

Cherry Cheng, a mom of two, says her daily exercise has rubbed off on her kids, including her 5-year-old daughter, Dora, who likes to do yoga and dance with her mom.

A transgender woman in Northern California is suing the company behind the popular Crossfit workouts, saying it refuses to let her compete in the female division of its annual fitness competitions.

Fifteen years ago, a handful of poorly constructed, clearly biased studies purported to show that prayer was a legitimate medical tool.

What is it all about? In case you hadn't worked it out, voga is a cross between yoga and voguing - the 1980s New York drag scene dance craze, which was introduced to the mainstream by Madonna.

A pub will reopen as a "loved" community venue - months after a dramatic raid evicting squatters who had set up home in the abandoned building.

Here's a run down of some of the latest exercise fads, fitness regimes and gyms that are beginning to catch on in New York City and across the country.

Jackson YMCA members have access to a new fitness center that plans to add nutrition classes and ballroom dancing instruction to its class schedule.

"I know I need to stretch to feel better but who has the self-discipline to do it at home alone? I would just not sustain a whole hour of exercise but this is fun and social and the relaxation at the end, oh, I love that," said Regena Warner, who has been coming to the program for two years.

"It's a very worthy local cause and one I knew could make a real and tangible difference in a little boy's life.

Read to your baby, sing and play games. But don't waste money on programs that claim to teach infants to read, a new study suggests.