Yoga

WEDNESDAY 'The Inside Edge - A Breakfast Forum' Jonathan R.T. Lakey, the featured speaker at Wednesday morning's "The Inside Edge" program, will be talking about the search for a cure to Type 1 Diabetes. Tickets for first-time guests cost $25. The breakfast begins at 6:30 a.m., followed by the meeting at 7 a.m. The event is at the University Club at UC Irvine, 801 E. Peltason Drive, Irvine. To make a reservation, visit http://www.insideedge.org . Wild & Scenic Film Festival Orange Coast College Friends of the Library presents OCC's "Wild and Scenic Film Festival," which starts at 7 p.m. with screenings in the Robert B. Moore Theatre at OCC, 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa.

To the kids of Andersen Elementary School, Michael Buckley is cooler than any celebrity. How couldn?t he be? He wrote ?SpongeBob SquarePants? episodes, after all. Buckley, now a children?s book author, paid the kids a visit Monday that included a pep talk about becoming a writer. The visit comes on the heels of the publication of his newest book, ?NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society,? starring a group of elementary school misfits who double as international spies.

Where's a campfire when you need it? About 850 customers in the SoBeCa area of Costa Mesa will be affected by a scheduled outage Tuesday night and Wednesday morning that will affect The Camp's shops and restaurants among other businesses, according to shops and an official. Businesses including Native Foods, Bikram's Yoga College of India, Umami Burger and Wine Lab at the Camp have hours that stretch past the planned outage, which is set to take place from 8 p.m. Tuesday night to 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to Southern California Edison spokeswoman Michelle Aguirre.

MAXINE COHEN I just got home from a yoga class. The Yoga Place on the corner of Newport and Harbor boulevards, where I've gone for many years, has been bought by Yoga Works and has undergone an expansion and face-lift. The newest studio, which recently opened in Newport at 200 Newport Center Drive, right above Kinko's, is just gorgeous. It's really sleek and modern. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow for a beautiful view of the ocean in one of the studios.

Alicia Robinson Two competing Southern California stereotypes met and mingled Saturday as a bevy of yoga enthusiasts performed their exercises amid strolling shoppers at Fashion Island. With nothing but a quarter-inch of foam rubber between them and the stony sidewalk, participants bent, stretched and balanced during a free yoga class in the courtyard in front of the new Lululemon Athletica store. "It was nice to do yoga in the sun outside," said Jeremy Sandahl, 55, a boat captain who lives in the San Juan Islands but is currently working in Newport Beach.

If Wilson Elementary School students ace their standardized tests this year, it may be thanks to the inner light. The Westside campus spent more than a month preparing students for the California Standards Tests, which a number of schools in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District began taking on Monday. At Wilson, which is set to begin testing today, teachers reviewed material with students and gave out sample questions — but because study only goes so far, they also led yoga exercises to ease the tension.

Daniel and Shawna Head, the founders of Newport Beach Power Yoga, aren’t going to let anything stand in the way of spiritual enlightenment. Not even money. The couple, who launched their new studio in September, offer classes four days a week with no set price tag. Participants can make donations — usually around $10 — but the owners let them in for free even if they don’t. All that’s required are a mat, appropriate clothes and the ability to hold a number of tough positions.