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Celebrating their first year in business, proprietors Ken and Natasha Coffey have announced that Heated Power Yoga is launching four more classes per week in a new venue in Briarhill Business Park from next week. This will bring the schedule of classes to 16 per week across four venues in Galway city and county.

At this time of year we need to kickstart and boost our energy levels. Now is the time to energise our sluggish bodies and minds after the festive season and look to the spring. Yoga keeps the body flexible, fit, and strong as well as clearing the mind, relieving anxiety and stress.

David and Laragh Cunningham, who run yoga schools in Galway city and Barna, are among Ireland’s most respected yoga teachers. They are now opening a third venue at Ocean Fitness in the Salthill Hotel. Their work with the Connacht rugby team and Galway footballers has encouraged more men to try yoga, and their commitment to staying at the cutting edge of yoga and health has paid dividends as the Yoga Shala is the only yoga school in Europe to teach a style of yoga called yoga synergy.

David and Laragh Cunningham of the Yoga Shala have just launched their teacher training programme and the programme which is fully subscribed sees them working with Australia’s most respected yoga teachers and physiotherapists. Simon Borg Olivier and Bianca Machliss have propelled yoga into mainstream Australian life through their innovative teachings over the past 25 years and Borg Olivier pays his first teaching visit to Europe on August 19 for what will be an amazing weekend workshop. There are still some places available but the workshop is only recommended for those who have an established yoga practice.

Maev Creaven is the director of Maev Creaven Nutrition (www.nutritioncentre.ie) and director of studies at the College of Naturopathic Medicine in Galway. She divides her time among the college, her centre in Galway, running healthy eating and yoga weekends, and teaching yoga.

Most fitness fanatics and serious sports people take time off or retire early due to injury. The average age for a footballer to retire from competitive games is just 31. But there is a way too not only prolong your career, but improve your play. Yoga helps to stretch and strengthen the muscles in a safe and extremely enjoyable way.

Anatomy celebrates its fifth birthday this week, and to celebrate it is offering loyal customers 50 to 70 per cent discount bargains. Anatomy promotes healthy lifestyles and fit bodies. A loyal and discerning clientele has kept it trading successfully and the company continues to bring unique high performance apparel to you.

As Ireland’s fragile economy struggles to fight its way back from the brink of collapse, one local business is organising its birthday celebrations.

Once upon a time, when you spoke about yoga it conjured up images of ethnically-clad women, chanting while bending their bodies into impossible positions. For the stereotypical male yoga was about as appealing as watching a rom-com. Thankfully times have changed. Here, in eight simple terms are the advantages of yoga for men:

Ireland has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the world. According to The European Childhood Obesity Group one in every four children in Ireland aged between five and 12 years is overweight or obese.