American Eagle employee Gabriella Connor works out in the yoga room twice a week with co-workers, including one gate agent who also is a yoga teacher.

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He also has a dedicated yoga room in his home.

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Among its amenities, a yoga room provides communal space for exercise and meditation, while a restaurant, bar and cafe serve up gourmet food for hotel guests and Bedford residents alike.

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There's a yoga room available any time of day (I walked in on the head menswear designer meditating there at around 11 a.m. on a Tuesday.) At the prodding of Chouinard's wife, Malinda, Patagonia was one of the first companies in California to provide on-site, subsidized day care.

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They walk back down again to an in-depth program, then to the pool, yoga field and dining room, dragging their invisible suitcases behind.

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Use a disinfectant wipe to swab the handlebars of equipment, and drape a clean towel over shared yoga mats and sauna and locker room benches.

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In a hospital room, she would use "yoga techniques, " massage, a "birth ball, " and music as pain management techniques.

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Knowing that I could practice yoga and do my core workout in my room, allayed my first-time cruise anxieties.

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But Choudhury believes there's room for every style and approach, and notes that there's been competitive yoga in her native India for more than a century.

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Hovey, who is lean and healthy in a Northern California yoga-and-yogurt sort of way, sat uncomfortably at a rickety desk in a corner of the room.

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