Living Well: Subtract stress and add vigor through yoga

When Jenny Hayo first started practicing yoga in 1996, she thought of it as "purely an exercise option." Within two years, she was teaching classes and digging deeper.

Her appreciation of yoga as a personal methodology changed with each new mentor. Hayo realized yoga is energizing in ways beyond the workout, and said she sees no reason why the rest of us can't tap into it for stress relief and everyday vigor.

"The interesting point of modern-day yoga is it is looked at as exercise by most people," says Hayo, who teaches at 8 Limbs Yoga Center in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, plus some classes at the downtown Zum health club. "Ninety-five percent of people get into yoga that way. But no one is complaining. It puts people on the yoga mat and that's great."

In fact, Seattle P-I venture capital columnist and blogger John Cook noted earlier this month in an item about the TeachStreet free online directory that there are no fewer than 984 yoga classes in the Seattle area.

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