|
||||||||
|
||||||||
Press releases | National Press | Founder's Blog & Latest News | Volunteers Blog | Health News
Convention to have yoga twist
By Tracee M. Herbaugh, Rocky Mountain News
Originally published 06:46 p.m., July 10, 2008
Updated 06:46 p.m., July 10, 2008
Yogis will be practicing their chaturanga and other poses alongside health-conscious delegates during the Democratic National Convention next month.
A traveling two-day yoga festival will kick off its 10-city tour in Denver on Aug. 24, the night before the Convention opens.
"It's all about health, a healthy lifestyle and yoga," said Johannes Fisslinger, president of Yoga Health Foundation, the non-profit organizing in charge of the festival. "We want to invite people to attend and learn about healthy living and yoga, and the health benefits of yoga especially."
Yoga Month Denver Health Festival is part of "Dialog:City," an event supported by the DNC Host Committee organized by the city's Office of Cultural Affairs.
The yoga festival will hold free mini-classes, child enrichment programs and lectures on specific health issues such as depression and back pain.
Nationally known yoga instructors will be on-hand in addition to medical practitioners and some "healthy" politicians.
"We've been talking to some of the high-level politicians and a lot them are totally into health care, obviously it's a big subject in politics and in this election," Fisslinger said.
Yogis will practice near the floating futuristic Pavilion designed by South Korean architect Minsuk Cho.
The festival runs through September - national yoga month - in cities including: Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Austin, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Boston, Massachusetts; Miami, Florida; and Vancouver, Canada.
|
