MUMBAI, India (AP) — Is it gymnastics? Is it yoga? Is it even a sport?

Picture a person climbing a coconut tree. Now imagine the person twisting, turning, rotating and practicing yoga postures, all while firmly gripping the tree with the thighs. Mallakhamb is this and ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Wrapping up a three-month investigation, Florida authorities said Tuesday that a 40-year-old man who killed two people and injured five others in a yoga studio was a “disturbed individual” with a “hatred towards women.”

Tallahassee police said after conducting ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — It’s one thing to roll out your mat and do Downward Dog. It’s another to pull off the iconic yoga posture with actual doggies down at your feet.

One stretches your spine. The other tickles your toes. Together, it’s called puppy yoga, and it’s as adorable as it ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the backroom of a red-brick Capitol Hill rowhouse, Frances Reed laid out yoga mats, rollers and blocks, setting up for a class later that day. The space had the look and feel of a traditional yoga studio, with the sound of crickets playing from a sound machine in the ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University’s president and board of trustees have committed $30,000 of their personal money to help cover law school costs for a man credited with confronting a shooter at a Tallahassee yoga studio and giving others time to escape.

NEW YORK (AP) — If you can do a downward-facing dog, you’re among the increasing numbers of Americans doing yoga.

A new report says more adults — and even kids — are practicing yoga and meditation.

A government survey conducted last year found 14 percent of adults said they had ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The man who shot and killed two women at a yoga studio was fired from his job as a substitute teacher for inappropriately touching a middle school girl, a Florida school district said.

Paul Scott Beierle, 40, posed as a customer during a yoga class Friday, then ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A man trying to stop a shooting attack on a Florida yoga studio said Sunday that he wrestled with the attacker after his gun jammed, a move credited with giving others time to flee the rampage that killed two people and wounded six others.

Yoga student Joshua Quick ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a Florida yoga studio (all times local):

7:05 p.m.

The man who shot and killed two people in a Tallahassee yoga studio appears to have made a series of racist and misogynistic videos four years ago.

Police say that on Friday ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A brooding military veteran and former teacher appeared to have made videos in which he railed at women and blacks, years before he fatally shot two women at a Florida yoga studio, wounded five other people and then killed himself.

The Friday evening shooting at a ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a Florida yoga studio (all times local):

1:50 a.m.

Authorities have identified the shooter at a yoga studio in Tallahassee and the two people he killed, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

The Tallahassee Police Department has ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A gunman killed two people and wounded five others at a yoga studio in Florida’s capital before killing himself Friday evening, officials said.

Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo told reporters Friday night that the man shot six people and pistol-whipped ...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — Nine kids ran around and jumped on visitors doing recent yoga sessions at Hunt’s Green Space.

Each kid had four legs. Some had horns and a high-pitched “baa.”

The Goat Yoga sessions, benefiting Fostering Hope, attracted about 50 participants earlier this month. ...

A little mindfulness is part of the collection at many American art museums, which are offering yoga, meditation and other wellness programming as part of the art-viewing experience.

In New York City, the Brooklyn Museum offers yoga and meditation sessions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Gap is stepping in to the men’s athleisure wear game, which has exploded in recent years.

The clothes are intended to be formal enough to wear to the office, at least on casual Friday, and suitable for the gym or yoga studio directly afterward.

Gap’s Hill City ...

HONG KONG (AP) — An anesthesiologist convicted of killing his wife and daughter by placing a yoga ball that leaked carbon monoxide in their car has been sentenced to life in prison in Hong Kong.

Malaysian citizen Khaw Kim Sun, 53, had become estranged from his wife, Wong Siew Fing, 47, and ...

“Namaste the Hard Way: A Daughter’s Journey to Find Her Mother on the Yoga Mat” (HCI), by Sasha Brown-Worsham

A girl’s emotional connection to her mom never stops evolving, even decades after the mother dies.

Sometimes the thing that was fraught in a mother-daughter relationship ...

HONG KONG (AP) — An anesthesiologist is on trial in Hong Kong charged with killing his wife and daughter by placing a leaking yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide in their car.

Malaysian citizen Khaw Kim-sun, 53, was allegedly having an affair and had become estranged from his wife and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — During the mandatory rookie camp back in June, the New York Giants required players to take a yoga class. Running back Robert Martin walked in, looked around at his new teammates and thought, man, this is crazy.

“We usually don’t do yoga,” he said. “We stretch, but we don’t ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Keith Mitchell only ever considered himself a football player. It was a label he willingly claimed for so long. When that was ripped away, he was lost.

“You don’t realize how attached you are to the identity,” the former All-Pro linebacker said. “I didn’t know ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Without stretching, New York Giants offensive lineman Chad Wheeler folds his 6-foot-7, 317-pound frame over far enough to place his palms flat on the ground. His knees are straight but not fully locked, because that’s poor form, and he can comfortably hold himself there — he’s ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The evangelist Franklin Graham recently asked thousands of people at an Oregon rally to pray for the state’s Democratic governor, saying she should be a Christian.

Yoga and meditation suit Gov. Kate Brown just fine, she told reporters Thursday when asked if she follows a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lululemon named Calvin McDonald as CEO Tuesday, more than five months after the maker of yoga tights said its previous chief executive resigned for falling short of the company’s standards of conduct.

McDonald, 46, served as president and CEO of makeup retailer Sephora for ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — With a panic button a feet away and constant video surveillance, yoga instructor Nancy Lumpkin walked amid seven barefoot women, all of them Deschutes County jail inmates, and led them through a range of positions.

“We call this ‘warrior pose,’” she said, as the women, ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — They arrived before the sunrise, their yoga mats in hand as they headed toward the Cinderella Castle, three hours before Disney’s Magic Kingdom opened.

The world’s busiest theme park briefly became a yoga studio as more than 1,000 Disney cast members took a free, ...

DEHRADUN, India (AP) — Some 50,000 people gathered with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday in the Himalayan foothills to salute the power of yoga.

Modi, an ardent Hindu nationalist, traveled to the hill town of Dehradun for the fourth International Day of Yoga, and shortly ...

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Yoga was about as novel a concept as pagers were back when Chris Saudek opened The Yoga Place, the first studio in La Crosse, three decades ago.

Although the evolution of tech communication has traveled light-years beyond the clunky paging process, yoga thrives on ...