San Francisco: Yoga, Baseball, and Good Causes
If you love yoga and baseball (or know someone who does), you've got to join this eBay auction. Annie Appleby, the founder of the Burlingame-based yoga clothing company YogaForce, has teamed up with Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer. Together, along with corporate sponsors, they are auctioning a package on eBay that includes a one night stay at the new Intercontinental San Francisco (plus private yoga instruction with Appleby), a gift basket of Johnson & Johnson skin care products, and a special tapered YogaForce Mat (shown below) signed by Selig. The value: more than $1,000.

So how did Appleby, a San Francisco native whose yoga clothing designs have been sold by some of the country's top boutiques and seen in high profile movies and TV shows (like Sex and The City), get involved with Stand Up To Cancer? The answer is simple: Appleby is a skin cancer survivor. And so is Selig. (Appleby regularly auctions YogaForce yoga mats signed by big celebrities to benefit cancer-fighting organizations.)
This eBay auction is a part of a two week fund-raising effort by Stand Up To Cancer that started with a telethon last Friday night, which ran on all the major TV networks and raised more than a hundred million dollars. (Involved, says Appleby, was "every movie star on the planet" and BOTH presidential hopefuls.) All proceeds from the auction are tax-deductible and will benefit the nonprofit.
The bidding starts today and goes until September 15. To find out more about Appleby's clothing line or her other auctions, check out the YogaForce site. And if you want to meet Appleby in person, she's teaching a yoga class at this weekend's Sunday Streets event, from 10:30-11:15am at Ferry Park.
Let us know if you win the package!



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