Remember Barack Obama? He used to be president like four score and seven light years ago. What’s the thing for former presidents to do, besides actually get sleep and cease aging at an exponential rate? Why, build a monument to preserve your own legacy, of course! Presidential libraries have been en vogue since the 1930s [...]
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Yesterday marked the 136th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, and the 4th (?) annual Yoga Garden where kidlets come together to get active as part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative. This year’s theme: “Hop into Healthy, Swing into Shape.” Kids of all ages enjoyed a break from all that hopping with some yoga on the [...]
FLOTUS pose? Michelle Obama says she’s steering away from lifting weights in exchange for getting her yoga on. “I’m seeing myself shift from weight-bearing stuff – even though that continues to be important – and the heavy cardio and running, to things like yoga that will keep me flexible,” the First Lady told People magazine [...]
Easter eggs, bunnies and little yogsters took over the White House lawn yesterday for the 135th annual Easter Egg Roll. This year’s theme “Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You!” promoted healthy eating and physical activities like yoga, obstacle courses and team sports, echoing the First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign to reduce childhood obesity and [...]
In line with First Lady Michelle Obama’s mission to reduce childhood obesity and, according to conspiracy theorists, the administration’s mission to turn us all into pacified meditation loving hippie liberals, the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll shall once again include a “Yoga Garden.” Go, go bunny pose. This year’s theme is “Be Healthy, Be Active, [...]
When Michelle Obama isn’t mom-dancing with Jimmy Fallon to promote the third phase of her “Let’s Move” initiative to fight childhood obesity, she’s touring the country, motivating kids to get moving and doling out praise to schools that have already committed to providing students with more physical activity during the school day. And, more yoga? [...]
Greetings fine American Yogis with the self-empowered right to vote! Did you know it’s an election year? What were you planning to do with that $20 in your pocket? Buy a chai and acai berry bowl? We have another idea. – Obama Campaign Management
Continuing the annual tradition of Easter yoga at the White House, this year’s bunny antics did not disappoint. To celebrate in the 134th annual White House Easter Egg Roll approximately 35,000 people gathered on the South Lawn for games, stories, egg roll funsies and yoga at the Yoga Garden yesterday.
It’s Easter again at The White House! Which means Egg Rolls down the South Lawn, childrens book readings by the prez and…yoga! It’s an Easter tradition! The theme of this year’s annual event is “Get Up and Go,” playing into First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative to prevent childhood obesity. As part of the [...]
