BARRE, Mass. (AP) — Pigeon pose and pale ale. Lotus and lager.

The contemplative practice of yoga isn't usually the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of beer. But combining the...

Health care is moving closer to patients.

Drugstores are expanding the care and support they offer, and telemedicine is bringing doctors and therapists to the family room couch as the system...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The owner of a Southern California yoga studio is accusing Dennis Rodman of helping three people steal more than $3,500 in merchandise from his business.

PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff's officials say a Florida woman pulled a small alligator from her yoga pants during a traffic stop.

The Charlotte County sheriff's deputy stopped a pickup...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Mew Haven Cat Cafe welcomes students from nearby universities and plenty of other travelers for coffee, a cozy lounge, and some quality time with cats, so long as they're...

DE PERE, Wis. (AP) — A historic building in De Pere that housed a restaurant, apartments, a yoga studio and photography business, has been destroyed by massive fire.

HARTSDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A 100-year-old yoga instructor has no plans to stop practicing and teaching.

On a spring day in Hartsdale, a northern suburb of New York City where she leads her...

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge says a jury will decide if a Georgia school system's decision to halt a yoga program — and transfer the elementary school administrator who started it — was...

ELIOT, Maine (AP) — Police Chief Elliot Moya spoke enthusiastically about a yoga class on Monday. Members of his department have been taking a "Yoga for First Responders" class at Yoga in...

MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. (AP) — On a frigid January night, Leigh Garbo-Minniefield is placing candles around the perimeter of a dance studio at the Father Ryan Arts Center in McKees Rocks.

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 more.

Mallakhamb is a traditional training exercise for wrestlers in India, and its name comes from the words malla, meaning wrestler, and khamb, or pole.

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 dozens of interviews and reviewing thousands of pages of documents they found no evidence that Scott Paul Beierle targeted anyone specifically in the frenzied shooting that happened last November.

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 sounds.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A group of pregnant women gather each week to get Zen together and practice yoga with their soon-to-be-born babies.

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — In 2009, Lt. Jen Vaughn was at war — with herself. Or so it seemed to the then-32-year-old Naval officer.

"I was going through some pretty tough stuff — a divorce and a series of deaths in the family, including a suicide," says Vaughn, of Laurel. "The state of the world, and all that was going on, made things worse. I didn't deal with the stress well; I needed an escape."

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 background.

But as Reed prepared an agenda for the class, it became clear it was something entirely different.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida hot yoga studio is reopening this weekend after a shooting that claimed the lives of two students.

Authorities say 40-year-old Paul Scott Beierle posed as a customer during a November yoga class, then began shooting. A 61-year-old faculty member at Florida State University and a 21-year-old FSU student were killed. Five others were injured. Beierle then killed himself.

Beierle had a history of harassing women and acting inappropriately.

OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Springfield's yoga community is speaking out after a pastor at an Assemblies of God megachurch warned Christians to avoid the popular activity because he claims it has "demonic roots."

OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Springfield's yoga community is speaking out after a pastor at an Assemblies of God megachurch warned Christians to avoid the popular activity because he claims it has "demonic roots."

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 recently done yoga, and the same percentage had recently meditated. That's up from about 10 percent and 4 percent from a similar survey done five years earlier.

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 began shooting, authorities said. A 61-year-old faculty member at Florida State University and a 21-year-old FSU student from Georgia were killed. Five others were injured. Beierle then killed himself.

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 spoke to ABC's Good Morning America on Sunday and said he grabbed Scott Paul Beierle's gun after it jammed, and hit him.

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 night Scott Paul Beierle posed as a customer at the yoga studio and then suddenly started shooting people. He killed two women and injured five others. Beierle then fatally shot himself.

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.

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 identified the shooter as Scott Paul Beierle, 40, the newspaper reports. He killed himself at the scene Friday.

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 another after walking into the studio, which is part of a small Tallahassee shopping center.

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. Dozens of other people enjoyed a petting zoo, played carnival games and sampled snow cones, popcorn and candy.

Caroline Schuepbach said she came from Oklahoma City just for the Goat Yoga.

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.

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi couple with business connections to The Trump Organization says yoga could relieve stress in prisons.

Dinesh and Parveen Chawla propose teaching yoga, meditation and breathing techniques to Mississippi inmates. They say the classes could help inmates control anger, and that could help keep people from later returning to prison.

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 brand will roll out in mid-October at hillcity.com and will be on display at 50 of the clothing chain's Athleta stores, which sell technical, athletic clothing for women.

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 their four children, although they continued to live together while he had an affair with a student.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A University of Montana associate professor of Buddhism and yoga is charged with misdemeanor assault for reportedly punching a bouncer at a country music concert.

"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 later turns out to be a source of strength.

Such is a theme in Sasha Brown-Worsham's memoir, "Namaste the Hard Way."

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama for 25 years has banned yoga in public schools, and a Hindu activist says it's time to change that.

Rajan Zed of Nevada in a statement Friday said the state is doing a disservice to its students by denying them the opportunity to learn yoga.

The Alabama Board of Education in 1993 voted to prohibit yoga, hypnosis and meditation in schools. The ban was pushed by conservative groups.

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 four children, although they continued to live together, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Andrea Lenore Cortez and Alyssa Haley, co-founders of Tainted Inc., call their Hartford beauty-and-lifestyle collective "a source of feminine totality."

Want a fabulously made-up face?

Want to learn how to fend off an attacker?

Walk in high heels? Dance burlesque or hip-hop? Go to a funky tag sale? Meditate? Do yoga? Just sit and talk about things?

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 do yoga."

Even as a first-timer, though, Martin immediately knew how the two were different .

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 myself."

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 that flexible.

That's nothing for Wheeler. Like many NFL players, he does yoga.

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 certain faith.

"I believe very much that each of us is a spiritual being, and that's how I see the world," Brown said, adding that she feels people should treat human beings with respect.

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 the past five years. Before that, he worked at Sears Canada. He'll join Lululemon on August 20.

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.

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, 45-minute class as part of the company's wellness program.

Behind them, Main Street USA was almost deserted. No lines. No strollers to dodge. No vendor selling giant balloons. Just silence.

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 after sunrise was doing yoga exercises with about 50,000 people.

Yoga "is enriching millions of lives all over the world," Modi said in a speech.