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Niroga In The News
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New juvenile center gets the kinks out
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Karen Holzmeister. InsideBayArea.com: June 10, 2007. |
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Like any other new building, Alameda County's recently opened Juvenile Justice Center had a few kinks.
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Inside Bay Area with Full Article |
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Just what the doctor ordered? Age-old yoga finds a new-age life as therapy for mental and physical ailments
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Laura Casey. Oakland Tribune: April 23, 2007. |
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At Alta Bates-Summit Medical Center's Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center, doctors are beginning a study on how yoga helps women with breast cancer.
"Patients who have breast cancer have a lot of anxiety, and a lot of it is leading up to the surgery," says Dr. Lisa Bailey, a surgical oncologist who specializes in breast surgery and also serves as medical director for the Carol Ann Read center.
Bailey says there is some evidence that yoga helps with anxiety, and there is hope it also helps the immune system. The study at the Carol Ann Read center will try to determine if these claims are sound.
"We're very excited about this," Bailey says. "It's a different direction, but we think it can be an important study and, if it's successful, an important service for our patients."
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Incarcerated Teens Learn Mindfulness
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Yoga Behind Bars. Jenny P. Andrews. Benefit Magazine: Mar/Apr 2007. |
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With funding from the Probation Department and Health Care Services, Niroga Institute offers yoga every weekday morning to the teens housed in B-2, a unit for twelve boys and eight girls. A Niroga study demonstrated that youth participating in yoga had improved self-control and reduced stress.
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Study shows Yoga Improves Self-Control and Lowers Stress of Youth in Alameda County Juvenille Hall Facility.
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BK Bose. Press Release: November 2006. |
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Through the regular practice of Yoga, breath work, and meditation, Niroga is teaching Bay Area youth essential life skills. Jointly funded by Alameda County’s Probation Department and Health Care Services Agency, Niroga began a program at Juvenile Justice Center, bringing Yoga to incarcerated youth five days a week, and to their staff once a week. The five days/week and year-long duration of this program makes it unique across the country. Several Probation Departments in Alameda and neighboring Counties are awaiting the results of an intervention of this nature and magnitude. These powerful tools for self-transformation will lead to potential reduction of crime and violence in our communities and affecting broad social change.
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Calm minds, peaceful goals
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San Francisco Chronicle: September 2006. |
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More than 75 people gathered on the lawn outside Oakland City Hall to do yoga Saturday, above, with the hope of bringing peace to a city struggling with surging violence.
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San Francisco Chronicle with Full Article |
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Yoga For Peace Oakland: Community Gathers to Promote Peace, Health, and Well-being
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Kriz Bell. Press Release: July 2006. |
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Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland is ground zero for local community transformation. On Saturday September 9, 2006, Yoga For Peace, Niroga Institute, and East Bay Community Mediation are joining forces to increase local awareness and support for programs helping to heal our fractured communities by teaching them tools to help themselves, giving a hand-up instead of a hand-out. Similar events will take place in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Maui, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and Dubai.
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The Niroga Institute - Giving the Gift of Yoga
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Cathy Dalton. YogiTimes: July 2006. |
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If you read the March issue of Yogi Times, you no doubt saw the centerfold portrait of a rapturous Darnell Walker, a student at Rock La Fleche Community Day School, with hands in anjali mudra (palms touching at the heart). Darnell is one of hundreds of people who had little or no access to yoga until the Niroga™ Institute entered their lives.
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YogiTimes with Full Article |
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