Jane Govoni at her yoga studio inside Sky Blue Dreams in Oxford. Julia Bower’s voice was smooth and calming as the students listened to her story with their eyes closed.

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FEEL THE POWER: It’s more than stress relief many get from yoga, and it may surprise you who is doing it (The Sauk Prairie Eagle)

During a “yo+lates” class, students practice traditional yoga poses – downward dog, boat, plank. But there’s an added twist. The yoga flow also includes Pilates moves that focus on the core. “We take it a step further,” says Denise Nelson, yoga instructor and family life educator at Sanford’s Mutch Women’s Center for Health Enrichment. “We do a yoga pose and work our abs in the yoga pose. We add …

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More than yoga (The Argus Leader)