Breathe in, breathe out. Then get crazy.

More than 2,100 practitioners came to the Fifth Annual San Francisco Yoga Journal San Francisco Conference to be inspired by yoga's top teachers - some rock stars in their own right - and bask in the glow of shared experience with like-minded souls. The sold-out event was the biggest yet, its popularity thanks, in no small part, to the participation of Michael Franti, front man for San Francisco band Spearhead as well as an activist and dedicated yogi.

In the spiritual activism workshop, which Franti co-taught with Jivamukti Yoga founders Sharon Gannon and David Life (Jivamukti is the largest yoga center in the nation), the musician walked his talk, bringing what he offers to people around the world to the gathered students. "The world needs yoga right now," he said.

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new syndrome in meatpacking?

A Medical Mystery Unfolds in Minnesota

By DENISE GRADY

Published: February 5, 2008

When some workers at the plant, which kills and butchers 19,000 hogs a day, developed neurological problems, health officials were called in.

"It is important to characterize this because it appears to be a new syndrome, and we don't truly know how many people may be affected throughout the U.S. or even the world," said Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, a veterinarian from the disease centers.

A survey of the workers confirmed what the plant's nurses had suspected: those who got sick were employed at or near the "head table," where workers cut the meat off severed hog heads.

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