Women's Center - Western Illinois University

May 9, 2008

51%
51% 5/09/08 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topic: Yoga

Over half the people in the world are women. What women do affects us all. 51% is a radio program that takes a serious and intelligent look at society's impact on women and their impact on society. 51% is a weekly half-hour of illuminating features and interviews focusing on issues of particular concern to women.

Broadcast of 51% on WIUM 91.3 FM is underwritten by the Western Organization for Women (WOW).

FR: WAMC, Albany, NY
RE: 51 PERCENT program rundown

Here is this week's information on 51% #981

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BILLBOARD – Julia Taylor and Jeanne Neff (1:00)

Long relegated to the realm of hippies and alternative medicine, yoga has reached a new level of mainstream popularity-- in many different forms. Doctors send pregnant women to yoga classes for a low-impact workout that can relieve aches from kicking infants. Steamy studios host Bikhram yoga classes, where participants are encouraged to sweat toxins out of their bodies. Many people diagnosed for depression and anxiety claim the calming focus of a yoga practice works better than Zoloft. For yoga superstar Seane Corn, the exercise offered an alternative to drugs and alcohol. She discovered yoga around the age of 20. Now, she runs a successful studio in Los Angeles and travels the yoga workshop circuit, teaching intensive classes all over the country. She's appeared in Nike ads and Allure Magazine calls her the most sought-after yoga instructor in L.A. Corn is using many of the proceeds of her yoga empire to support non-profits around the world. Along with two other women in yoga, she's started a campaign called “Off the Mat and Into the World,” which supports local and global agencies, including the Cambodian Children's Fund. I sat down with Corn at a conference at the Omega Institute in New York's Hudson Valley to talk about her devotion to yoga, and how it's changed her life. (9:40)

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SHOW BREAK - Coming up on today's episode, we'll meet another yoga teacher – this one has a unique business model. If you missed part of the show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org. Or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD – be sure to have the program number ready. This week, it's number 981. (30 sec)

In yoga, there's an emphasis on individuality – teachers often say in yoga classes to stretch “as far as you're comfortable,” or give alternate poses if one posture proves difficult. They will come up with certain stretches for students who have injuries in certain parts of their bodies. Other times, instructors change stretches from class to class to keep them from getting too repetitive and to work different muscles in the body. It's tough to get that kind of variety and individual attention from a DVD or CD at home. But one yoga teacher in Connecticut says she's come up with a solution. Robin Lange started taking yoga classes as a young actress in Los Angeles, and then began teaching them to supplement her income. She opened her own studio on the East Coast and worked with a student who happens to be an audio engineer to come up with a new idea that they have dubbed iYoga Studio. Existing only on the Web, the studio sells individual poses on iTunes and Rhapsody music sites. Students can buy different poses and compile them into their own playlists. On her Web site, iYogastudio.net, Lange gives some playlist suggestions. Here's an excerpt of one of the classic yoga poses, Downward-Facing Dog. I spoke with Lange about her iYoga Studio – and why she went online. (8:05)

SHOW CLOSE - Julia Taylor and Jeanne Neff (:35)

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51 Percent is produced by WAMC/Northeast Public Radio's National Productions in Albany, NY in cooperation with Russell Sage College, the college for Women, in Troy, NY, and her sister colleges in the Sage Colleges Federation. Hosts are Dr. Jeanne Kammer Neff, President of The Sage Colleges, and WAMC's Mary Darcy. We invite your comments about the program. Cassette tapes of the program are available by calling 1-800-323-9262. Helen Desfosses is a frequent political and social commentator on 51%. She is also Associate Provost at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany, and President of the Albany Common Council.
WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, 318 Central Ave. Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U.S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.

May 2, 2008

51%
51% 5/2/08 @ 12-12:30 p.m. 91.3 FM Tri States Public Radio. 51% takes a serious & intelligent look at society's impact on women & their impact on society. Topic: Singers and Songwriters

Over half the people in the world are women. What women do affects us all. 51% is a radio program that takes a serious and intelligent look at society's impact on women and their impact on society. 51% is a weekly half-hour of illuminating features and interviews focusing on issues of particular concern to women.

Broadcast of 51% on WIUM 91.3 FM is underwritten by the Western Organization for Women (WOW).

FR: WAMC, Albany, NY
RE: 51 PERCENT program rundown

Here is this week's information on 51% #980

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BILLBOARD – Julia Taylor and Jeanne Neff (1:00)
We turn back the pages of time to talk about a woman who hit it big in the Jazz Era. Peggy Lee is considered by some to be the greatest female jazz singer of all time. She had a different approach from the triumvirate we hear about today – Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. That's because Peggy Lee had a habit of almost whispering into the microphone when she sang. GQ reporter and author Peter Richmond wrote the first full-length biography of Peggy Lee, which has been recently released in paperback form. It's published Picador, and it's called Fever. I talked to Peter Richmond about Peggy Lee's legacy. (4:59)

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Instead of whispering, Lea Herman uses a full, rich voice in her work. Herman is a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, just about to release her very first album. She's been working part-time as a singer-songwriter since she graduated from college in 2007 – and hopes this record will be her big break. She talks about how things have changed since Peggy Lee's time, and the difficulties of trying to compete in a crowded field – and how the music bug first bit her. (6:37)

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SHOW BREAK - Coming up on the program – we'll hear from Grammy-award winning composer Joan Tower. If you missed part of the show, you can listen to 51% anytime. Just download our podcast at wamc.org. Or call 1-800-323-9262 to order a CD – be sure to have the program number ready. This week, it's number 980. (30 sec)

One of the highlights for me over the past year has been the opportunity to sit down with classical music composer Joan Tower. It's a big year for Tower. She's turning 70 – and has already celebrated by winning four Grammy Awards for her sweeping, patriotic composition “Made in America.” I spoke with Tower in her studio a few weeks before the Grammy Awards ceremony. I left much of our conversation on the cutting-room floor, so I picked up some of those pieces and put them together for this week's show. Let's begin with Joan Tower's discovery of music. (8:53)

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SHOW CLOSE - Julia Taylor and Jeanne Neff (:35)
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51 Percent is produced by WAMC/Northeast Public Radio's National Productions in Albany, NY in cooperation with Russell Sage College, the college for Women, in Troy, NY, and her sister colleges in the Sage Colleges Federation. Hosts are Dr. Jeanne Kammer Neff, President of The Sage Colleges, and WAMC's Mary Darcy. We invite your comments about the program. Cassette tapes of the program are available by calling 1-800-323-9262. Helen Desfosses is a frequent political and social commentator on 51%. She is also Associate Provost at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany, and President of the Albany Common Council.
WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, 318 Central Ave. Tune to 51% weekly throughout the U.S. on public and community radio stations, some ABC Radio Network stations, Armed Forces Radio stations around the world and on the Internet.