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...employers have managed to avoid layoffs altogether by asking all their workers to sacrifice. Patrice Tanaka, 50, who runs her own New York City public-relations firm, began trimming costs last year by deferring tech upgrades and bonuses. She then snipped staff perks like free bagel breakfasts, ice cream, yoga--even the fresh flowers that once perfumed the loft offices. It wasn't enough. In a last-ditch effort to hold on to her staff of 40, she asked her partners to swallow a 20% pay cut and other workers to forgo 10%. "It's not a Utopia; we have...
...world Tae-Bo. Gold just signed a deal with belly-dance instructor Dolphina, who teaches in Los Angeles, to distribute her Goddess Workout Fitness Video series because "we think we're ahead of the curve of a new revolution." It's possible that the practice will become classic, like yoga, but there's always the danger that it could end up in the used-trend lot, discarded and rusting like step aerobics. --With reporting by Esther Chapman/Omaha, Constance E. Richards/Asheville and Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
...That's why, Lewis and others argue, in the New Age bookstores and yoga centers from Berlin to Los Angeles where Barks' and other modernized versions of Rumi have found such an enthusiastic following these days, a certain tension is often missing. Barks' versions, Lewis claims, "teleport the poems of Rumi out of their cultural and Islamic context into the inspirational discourse of non-parochial spirituality." Cut free from the ground of orthodox Islamic belief from which they grew, the Persian poet's lyrical reports from the outer fringes of mystical experience risk becoming mere souvenirs...
Some parents in Aspen, Colo., are hopping mad that their kids may learn Downward-Facing Dog in school. At a packed school-board meeting last week, Steve Woodrow, a Baptist minister and parent of two students at Aspen Elementary School, challenged the school's plan to teach yoga this fall on the grounds that instruction in the ancient practice of breathing and stretching introduces religion into the classroom and thus is unconstitutional. School officials planned to launch a program called Yoga Ed, already used in public schools in Los Angeles, Seattle and Columbus, Ohio, in hopes that it would help...
...sailing as an enjoyable way to spend downtime during meetings in San Diego or Singapore. But because all the ropes and levers make the sport as multitasked as it is serene, they also consider it a means to build corporate team skills. "It's more fun than office yoga," says Maguie Jones, 43, a Miami real estate investment executive...