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The tournament, hosted in Auckland, New Zealand, was a big moment for Williams, who won in a tension-filled final match against fellow American Jessica Pegula. Over the course of her career, Williams has won 23 Grand Slam tournaments. Though Williams regularly made it to the final round in other competitions, her last title win was in January 2017 while she was still pregnant with her daughter, Alexis Olympia. “It feels good,” Williams said, reports CNN. “It’s been a long time. I’ve been waiting two years for this moment. I think you could see the relief on my face.” Shortly after her win, Williams’ daughter joined her on the court to celebrate. read more

Before her name became internationally recognised, she hadn’t shared about being on the autism spectrum, in part, because she knew “many ignorant people still see it as an ‘illness’, or something negative,” she tweeted. Asperger’s was officially categorised as a diagnosis on the autism spectrum 2013, according to the Autism Society. read more

When most people finish a sun salutation, they’re not pondering the history of the pose. They’re thinking “God, I’m a sweaty mess,” not, “Gee, I wonder who came up with this concept?” Although it might not come up in your practice, the history of yoga is storied and complex. As far as scholars know, the first yogic activities emerged about 3,000 years ago in India, and involved people isolating themselves from their community to perform contemplation, prayer, and purification, according to Matthew Remski, a yoga teacher, trainer, and the author of Practice And All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, And Healing In Yoga And Beyond. Now, as Remski puts it, yoga is “a globalized, middle-class, mainstreamed, $80-billion-per-year wellness commodity, produced and consumed mainly by women.” read more