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YMCA of downtown Toronto, c. 1923 The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity organization working on social issues in the Greater Toronto Area . [ 1 ] In 2008 and 2009, YMCA of Greater Toronto in Canada was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. [ 2 ]
GoodLife purchased the 'Alliance' and 'Family Fitness' club chains in 2007–2008. By October 2011, the brand had over 275 clubs across Canada. [11] In 2009, GoodLife Fitness expanded into Eastern Canada by acquiring Nubody's family of clubs. [12] GoodLife Fitness also partnered with Energie Cardio in Quebec in that same year. [13]
Mark Spicoluk is a Canadian content creator, yoga instructor, musician, podcaster, [1] and entrepreneur. [2] He is best known as co-creator and yoga teacher for the lifestyle brand Boho Beautiful, his time as bass player with Avril Lavigne, and as the vocalist and bassist for the punk rock band Closet Monster.
In 2008, Stratus opened a yoga studio named Stratusphere in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario. [157] The studio is billed as "Canada's largest eco-friendly yoga studio". [ 158 ] In 2009, Stratusphere was awarded Top Choice Awards' Best New Business award, and the following year, Stratus won the award for Business Woman of the Year.
Alo Yoga was founded in 2007 in Los Angeles by Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge, childhood friends who had become interested in yoga as a treatment for anxiety and a back injury respectively. [1] The name stands for "air, land, and ocean". [ 1 ]
The Yoga Alliance is a U.S.-based nonprofit membership trade and professional organization for yoga teachers, headquartered in Arlington Virginia.The organization created the title of Registered Yoga Teacher in the United States to refer to teachers who have finished a yoga teacher training through a school registered with the Yoga Alliance.
Hansa Yogendra (born 8 October 1947) is an Indian yoga guru, author, researcher and TV personality. [1] [2] [3] She is director of The Yoga Institute in Mumbai, founded by her father-in-law Shri Yogendra.
A number of yoga texts, such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads, have borrowed from (or frequently refer to) the Yoga Yajnavalkya. [197] It discusses eight yoga asanas (Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura), [198] a number of breathing exercises for body cleansing, [199] and ...