Rick Stollmeyer is banking on his belief that the Internet can make everyone's life easier. His San Luis Obispo-based company, Mindbody Online, provides Web-based business software for yoga, wellness, fitness and healing arts practitioners to organize and manage their payroll, employees and customers. It also allows customers to schedule spa treatments, children's programs and fitness classes on the Web – much in the same way people book vacations online...
An ancient practice in balance and flexibility will be put to use to help eliminate a not-so-ancient health issue: childhood obesity. Mindbody Online, a California software developer, and Core Power Yoga, a group of yoga studios located in Colorado, Oregon, and Minnesota, are joining the fight against childhood obesity by hosting a day of yoga marathons to benefit Louie's Kids, an organization that provides scholarships to overweight children to attend weight loss camps and programs.