{"id":58140,"date":"2020-02-20T03:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=58140"},"modified":"2020-02-18T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:41:46","slug":"yoga-with-lola-this-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_20_2020\/yoga-with-lola-this-semester","title":{"rendered":"Yoga With Lola This Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She proved to be such a popular four-legged yogini last year that the Department of World Languages and Cultures will present Yoga with Lola again this semester.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions with the department\u2019s emotional support dog will take place in Memorial Field House Room 2420:<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_58217\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?attachment_id=58217\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58217\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lola-photo-by-Cam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"368\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lola-photo-by-Cam.jpg 540w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Lola-photo-by-Cam-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lola, the emotional support dog of the Department of World Languages and Cultures, presided over a yoga session in December. Two sessions were held to help students and employees relax and take a mental health break before finals last semester.<\/p><\/div>\u2022 Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 25 and 26, from 2 to 3 p.m.;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wednesday, March 25, from 3 to 4 p.m.; and<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tuesday and Wednesday, April 28 and 29, from 2 to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Charlene Gary, secretary in the World Languages and Cultures Department, and certified yoga instructor, will lead the sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invite students and employees to bring their mats to an easy flow yoga class. No experience or flexibility is needed,\u201d Gary said. \u201cOr feel free to bring a blanket to meditate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lola also will be accepting visitors during the sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStop by to meet Lola and take a break,\u201d Gary said. \u201cResearch shows pets have amazing healing powers, including lowering blood pressure and calming anxiety. Take a few minutes out of your busy schedules to make a new friend or two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who wish to reserve a space for their mats are asked to visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1hJNahdAdqtdPMrWBodUdYM-F1vbDjNacwo068ve7tV8\/viewform?edit_requested=true\"><strong>Yoga With Lola website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the free sessions, contact Gary at <a href=\"mailto:charlene.gary@utoledo.edu\">charlene.gary@utoledo.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She proved to be such a popular four-legged yogini last year that the Department of World Languages and Cultures will present Yoga with Lola again this semester. Sessions with the department\u2019s emotional support dog will take place in Memorial Field House Room 2420: \u2022 Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 25 and 26, from 2 to 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_20_2020\/yoga-with-lola-this-semester\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58218,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58140\/revisions\/58218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}