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Practice your downward dog at SFO airport …

February 6, 2012

Takeaway: Decompress before your next flight through SFO airport by using the yoga room built in Terminal 2. Based on a passenger suggestion, this yoga studio is considered the first of its kind globally. Namaste.

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Excerpted from Reuters.com, “San Francisco airport unveils yoga room for travellers

Just cleared airport security and in need of a little deep breathing and stretching relaxation?

San Francisco Airport has opened what it calls a first of its kind yoga room, and while it’s not quite a mountaintop in Tibet, airport officials say the low lights, and soothing blue walls aim to afford travellers, stressed out or sanguine, an oasis of calm in which to flex, twist and decompress.

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Doin’ a Downward Dog

“As far as we know it’s the first (yoga room) at an airport anywhere in the world,” said Michael C. McCarron, director of community affairs for the airport.

He said the idea for the room, in the newly refurbished Terminal 2, came from a passenger suggestion at an open house. It joins the Berman reflection room, a space intended for silence and meditation located before Terminal 2 security.

Airport Director John L. Martin called the room, which opened last week, “another leap forward in providing our travellers the opportunity and space to relax and decompress on their own terms.” …

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