Yoga for Regular Guys: The Best Damn Workout on the Planet!

at Santa Ana College in Southern California and is also a consultant and speaker for various organizations and corporations.

    Tye Dorsey ’s passion for dance, jiu jitsu, and capoeira led her to study throughout Germany, South Korea, Brazil, and many other exotic locales. While teaching English in Japan, Tye encountered yoga. She enjoys its emphasis on flexibility and strength, and is enthusiastic about sharing this learning with others. She lives, in sunny L.A., by the maxim: “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”

    Ted Evans has been active all his life. Even a fracture of one of the vertebrae in his upper thoracic spine didn’t slow him down for long. Ted has always been quite strong, but he noticed that his flexibility was decreasing as he aged. In 2000, Ted saw DDP doing some yoga stretches at a gym in Atlanta and decided that he too needed to give yoga a shot to increase his flexibility and overall health. At age sixty-six, Ted began to take yoga classes with the Yoga-Doc. Since then, he has made many gains in flexibility, strength, and balance, while he continues to stand out as a true inspiration to his teachers and fellow students.

    Bruce Fennigkoh entered the U.S. Navy after high school, learned to weld—and traveled the world. After nine years, he left the Navy with a skill, an associates’ degree, a desire to learn, and a new wife. He studied at San Diego State University Army Reserve Officers Training Corps in 1987 and completed his bachelor’s degree and Army Officer Basic Course. After eleven years of civilian life, Bruce returned to active duty in the active guard reserve program and now works at several units in the Los Angeles area. He finds yoga is the solution to keeping fit and relieving the tensions that come in his busy life.

    Gypsy is a professional dancer in Los Angeles, California. She has studied many dance forms, as well as gymnastics, yoga, and pilates. She is now teaching a class called “Take It Off” and continues performing with her dance troupe, The Green Eyed Ladies.

    Kimberly Page has always maintained an avid interest in health and fitness. For several years, Kimberly joined her husband in the professional wrestling industry, playing the role of his on-screen wife and manager. Later she developed the Nitro Girls, a popular dance team for the show. Currently, she is an actress and model and has appeared in films such as
Seabiscuit
and
Rat Race
; her television appearances include
Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
,
Entertainment Tonight
,
Extra
, and
Hollywood Squares
. She has also appeared in national publications, including
Playboy
,
Maxim
,
Stuff
,
Muscle & Fitness
,
Ironman
, and
TV Guide
.

    Alan Rackley found yoga at a crucial time in his life. He weighed three hundred pounds and was experiencing the many negative effects of obesity: back pain, knee pain, bouts of high blood pressure, blood sugar problems, and sleep apnea. Wisely, he bought a DVD of a yoga routine and started to practice yoga. Over a few months, this led to some initial weight loss, and he started to feel better about himself. Yoga, combined with better eating habits, led to an amazing one-hundred-pound weight loss over the period of three years.

    Marlon Ransom , former owner of several personal training studios in Chicago, is a certified trainer, a regular contributing writer to various health magazines, and a sought-after speaker on the topics of sales and fitness. He has been friends with Dallas for over a decade and reluctantly took a yoga class at Dallas’s behest years ago. Ever since that day, he has been a willing yoga participant and believes in Yoga for Regular Guys as much as Dallas himself.

    Cody Runnels always enjoyed competing in amateur wrestling, but it was not until a late-night “gut-check” conversation with DDP that he enjoyed winning in amateur wrestling. While visiting Dallas in Los Angeles, he was introduced to YRG, and as the saying goes, “there was no turning back.” He went undefeated during his junior season at Lassiter High School. Athletes and sports commentators alike have always spoken of the importance of being in a “zone,” and for Cody, YRG is a one-way ticket there.

R E S O U R C E S
    DDP’s Web site
    www.ddpyoga.com
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