CBSNews.com looks at a number of iPhone apps to help you get fit, such as Yoga STRETCH:

Yoga STRETCH is like a pocket-sized yoga instructor who coaches you in 60 different moves of “Vinyasa flow” yoga. The app comes with soothing music and seems most useful for those already somewhat familiar with the moves.

Read more at CBSNews.com.

The details:

Grand Prize
An ultimate vacation from SpaFinder including airfare for two, accommodations at a luxury spa (4 days/3 nights), treatments and a one year supply of Healthy Balance Juice!

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Prize Eligibility
Only persons residing in United States who are at least 18 years of age can enter.

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Fifteen lucky winners will receive a tpECOmat Plus yoga mat from Kulae. Winners can choose from one of the following color combinations: Plum/Slate; Cornflower Blue/Pear; Birch/Black or Lavender/Moss. Approx. retail value: $49.99; kulae.com

The tpECOmat Plus is the ultimate eco yoga mat! Outstanding support and comfort all in a 100% biodegradable yoga mat. At 72 inches long and 5mm thick, the Kulae tpECOmat Plus is four inches longer than a standard yoga mat and has been designed with all styles of yoga in mind. Constructed using closed cell technology (so germs, bacteria and odor cannot penetrate the mat surface) and weighing less than 2.5 pounds, this mat is revolutionary, and is the eco standard of yoga mats. They are 100% biodegradable, 100% recyclable, ultra-hygienic, and PVC- and latex-free!

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Prevention.com looks at eight off-the-mat yoga poses that you can do throughout the day. And your daily yoga routine starts early:

7 am: In the Shower
This belly-breathing exercise tones and strengthens your abdominal muscles and can relieve headaches. Bonus: Doing it in a steamy shower can help clear your sinuses.

Stand tall with the water against your back. Place your palms on your abdomen, with index fingers near your navel. Relax your belly and inhale deeply through your nose so your abdomen expands against your hands. Then exhale completely, pulling in your abdominal muscles to force out all the air, and make an om sound, feeling the vibration. If you’d prefer, use another sound or a word such as “home,” “love,” or “amen.” Do three times.

Source: Prevention.com

Do your sun salutations in style with one of 10 So Low yoga sets. Each includes a bag, mat, pair of cotton pants, and matching top (a $190 value).

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Prizes include:

One (1) grand prizewinner winner will receive a Savasa prize package including, one (1) Eco Yoga Mat (ARV $30.00), one (1)Yoga Block (ARV $8.00), one (1) Eco Body Ball (ARV $25.00), one (1) Hand Weight Set (ARV $60.00), one (1) Resistance Band (ARV $15.00), one (1) Eco Jump Rope (ARV $10.00), one (1) Flat Pilates Band (ARV $15.00), one (1) FitAll Mesh Pocket for Shoe & Arm (ARV $8.00), one (1) pair of Ankle weights (ARV $75.00). Total ARV of grand prize package $246.00. Fifty (50) first prizewinners will each receive a prize package including three (3) Savasa Resistance Bands and one (1) Workout DVD approximate retail value (“ARV”) $15.00. Total ARV of all prizes awarded $261.00.

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“Yoga gives these women back the sense that they still have untapped reserves of life and health and youth in them – that they are not old and maimed and sick at all, but still very much alive,” says Deirdre Summerbell, a yoga teacher and founder of the organisation Project Air.

Since its launch in 2007, thousands of women who were raped during the genocide in 1994, many of whom were consequently infected by HIV/AIDS, have been reached with yoga classes given by Project Air.

In partnership with local gynaecologic health centres that perform fistula operations for survivors of rape, the organisation is now planning to expand into the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman or girl.

This is the first time that yoga has been included as a programmed mental health service of a medical NGO in Africa.

Check out the whole interview at IPSNews.net.

As the U.S. population ages, healthcare providers are paying increasing attention to preventing falls. Injurious falls can endanger an older person’s independence, even his or her life. And the medical costs associated with them are about $19 billion a year nationwide.

Fear of falling leads some older people to believe the safest course is to move less, but inactivity will only increase the risk of falls, say geriatric-medicine experts such as Dr. Elizabeth Phelan of Harborview Medical Center’s Fall Prevention Clinic in Seattle.

Exercise geared toward maintaining lower-body strength and balance has shown to reduce the risk of falling in older adults, Phelan said. That’s one reason she tries to steer older adults away from prematurely relying on walkers, wheelchairs and motorized scooters, which can accelerate loss strength and balance.

Source: MiamiHerald.com

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* Roundtrip airfare to Monterey, California
* Three night’s accommodations at the Cypress Inn
* Ground transportation
* Daily art classes
* Daily yoga classes
* Massage
* Daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

This contest has an ARV of $5000, and can be entered here.

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1 set of Yoga-Paws $35 value
1 package of 20 individually wrapped Jo-Sha cleansing wipes $15 value
1 Yoga-Syz DVD $15 value

Total Value = $65

You can enter this sweepstakes here.