ANAHEIM, Calif. On Tuesdays and Fridays when the Astros are home, a yoga instructor and a handful of players occupy the Astros press conference room at Minute Maid Park, a space used more commonly for manager Bo Porters nightly media debriefings.

Hosted by instructor Christin Staszesky Harper, the classes began last season. Participants have included Wednesday nights starting pitcher, Collin McHugh, as well as Anthony Bass, Dallas Keuchel and Brett Oberholtzer. The classes are open to the entire team, even if cerebral pitchers have found their way through the doors more often this season.

It helps with mobility, it helps with core stability, Astros strength and conditioning coach Jake Beiting said. And then secondarily, I think its a really good mental benefit when you look at being able to teach yourself to keep your body relaxed kind of keeping your mind in the moment.

Baseball is in many ways a violent sport, every play just another burst of intensity. Yoga, at first glance, might not seem a relevant fit. But its use in baseball and other professional sports has taken off because of the potential gains in breathing, strengthening of core muscles and focus.

Matt Repplinger, a Denver-based baseball yoga consultant, said that even compared to two years ago, yogas practice has grown immensely in the majors.

Id say that 60 percent of the teams have someone working with them now, Repplinger said. From the Mets, to the Phillies, from the Dodgers to the Rockies, they have got either a full-time or a part-time instructor.

Veteran Chad Qualls was with the Padres in 2011, and in spring training, they had mandatory yoga sessions on occasion.

Ive done pilates, I liked pilates, said Qualls, who isnt a yoga practitioner himself. In San Diego, they just did (yoga) in spring training. It was like once a week, instead of doing poles or sprints or something, our cardio for the day would be a half-hour, hour yoga class. Just to get people a little more flexible, change it up a little bit.

It was around (when I first got to the majors). I think people have always tried to gain an edge anywhere. You hear of football players doing ballet. Im just a naturally tight person, my hamstring, lower back, hips have always been tight. Some people that are more flexible, youre more loose and you feel better, the more you stretch, the more you get limber, the better youre going to feel on a daily basis.

Some teachers approach yoga with a spiritual element, which might deter some people immediately, Beiting said.

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So imagine doing yoga alongside hundreds of others, and at a world famous museum.

That's what is planned for Thursday. And it's all about the power of community, getting together for a physical and quite possibly spiritual experience alongside some famous artwork, right in New York City.

A yoga mat in a setting like the Museum of Modern Art, and you might have a hard time turning your gaze inward, because it's in the sculpture garden at MOMA. 700 yogis will do yoga right there.

"The art that surrounds us, the intention that surrounds us, absolutely informs the practice," said yoga teacher Elena Brower.

She will be one of the instructors. The event is put on by Lole, a French sportswear brand.

"Lole means live out loud everyday, and we want to bring that in every city and to as many people as possible," said Isabelle Mille of Lole.

And they're doing it through the Lole White tour, which has been held all over the world at iconic spots, with everyone wearing white.

"It's such a beautiful thing. We get together hundreds of yogis, thousands of yogis, all dressed in white for peace and purity," said Brower.

And Elena also designed some of the pieces. Apparently you can be fashionable while doing those downward dogs.

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This will loosen up those joints.

The City Parks Foundation is providing free yoga for seniors at Cunningham Park in Oakland Gardens one of the best-kept secrets in town, seniors say.

Youre out in the open, in nature. Look at the sky here! said Stephen Liebman, 64. Youre meditating with the trees.

The class runs Tuesdays and Thursdays through June 20 at 10 a.m., and has a loyal group of about 10 all over the age of 60, who say the deep stretching and exercise is like WD-40 for their bodies and keeps them one step ahead of their children on the coolness curve.

I feel great, said Sandy Mounsey, 65. My asthma has improved 100% since I started!

Even the groups instructor, Bill Ryan, is nearly a senior, a 57-year-old tractor trailer driver for Con Ed who took up yoga in 2008.

A lot of guys dont realize the benefit, they think its a girls thing, said Ryan, who has tried to get his son into the practice.

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Now that Microsoft has let the Surface Pro 3 cat out of the bag, we can stack it up against existing alternatives to see how it measures up with the rest of the market.

The Surface Pro 3pricing and spec rumors that were whispered prior to Microsofts event turned out to be true. Five configurations are offered, with the base model Surface Pro 3 starting at $799, and the high-end maxing out at an eye-popping $1,949. Sure, there are other laptops that are priced much higher than that, but theyre outside of the Surface Pro 3s weight and spec class, which makes those comparisons unfair.

However, Lenovos Yoga 2 Pro, which we reviewed back in November, is more than a fair match-up for Microsofts newest laptop/tablet hybrid. So how do the two measure up against one another?

Well take you through the two devices step by step, starting with specs, and including design, as well as price. Weve already matched up the Surface Pro 3 with the 11-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Air, and the Yoga 2 13. Now its the Yoga 2 Pros turn.

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As you can see in the chart above, the Surface Pro 3, and the $1,299 version of the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro (theres also an $1,199 model) match up pretty evenly. Thats until you look at the CPU found in each device.

The $1,299 version of the Surface Pro 3 is powered by an Intel Core i5-4300U processor clocked at 1.6 GHz. Meanwhile, the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro packs an Intel Core i7-4500U running at 1.8 GHz. Considering that the two carry the same amount of storage (256GB SSDs) and RAM (8GB for each), the Lenovo has a clear advantage here on the strength of the better processor that it wields. On the graphics front, both the Surface Pro 3 and Yoga 2 Pro have Intel HD Graphics 4400 GPUs, so theyre even in that respect.

Measuring 11.5 x 7.93 x 0.36 inches and weighing 1.76 pounds, the Surface Pro 3 is clearly thinner and lighter than the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro (12.99 x 8.66 x .61 inches, 3.06 pounds). However, as a convertible, the Yoga 2 Pro is much more of an acrobat than the Surface Pro 3, allowing the user to put it in one of four modes: laptop, tablet, tent, and stand. Nevertheless, the Surface Pro 3 wins on portability here.

But what about usability? As we mentioned before, we reviewed the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro in the fall, and found that it has a superb keyboard. Meanwhile, the Surface Pro 3 doesnt even include one to begin with. Youll have to shell out an additional $129.99 for Microsofts Surface Pro Type Cover accessory in order to add a physical keyboard to Redmonds newest device, and its inferior to the Yoga 2 Pros to boot. Unfortunately, doing so brings also its total price to $1,428.99.

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