It’s been six years since Latina lovely Anita Lopez delivered headlines of the day from the KUSA-9News anchor desk.
The former weekend anchor split from the station after two serious injuries left her no longer able to sit in a chair for the length of the newscast.
She went to a handful of doctors for relief from the chronic spinal pain, then she turned to prescription drugs.
“For 18 months, I went through traditional physical therapies — traction, massage, strength training,” Lopez said. “But none of my doctors were talking to each other.”
So pills killed the pain.
Her “aha” moment occurred while watching the Rush Limbaugh prescription-drug- abuse story unfold on CNN.
“I immediately went to the medicine cabinet and realized I was taking more painkillers than Rush did,” Lopez said.
After a grueling seven-day detox fast, she traded the pills for yoga — a practice she once embraced but abandoned.
Determined to stay drug- and pain-free, Lopez took two yoga classes six to seven days a week. She turned her newfound passion into a new profession.
Lopez — her business name is Anita Yoga — specializes in corporate classes where she goes into a company and teaches a class once or more a week for a 12-week session. The cost is $55 per class, covered by the company, employee or a combination of both.
Also starting next week, you can catch Anita Yoga Quick Fix on Comcast’s On Demand under the health-and-fitness category. They’re three- to six-minute minisessions concentrating on one part of the body. She also offers private classes. More info: .
Sweet ski chalets.
What will a cool few mil buy you? If money is no object, take your pick of a sweet spread of the top 10 U.S. ski homes ranked by .
Not shocking, Aspen pretty places made the Nos. 1 and 2 positions. The Compound on the Ridge took top honors: nine bedrooms, nine baths on the ridge of Red Mountain for $35 million.
Next is the Residence on the Little Nell, a seven-bedroom, 10-bath sweetheart for $24.95 million.
Feeling presidential? President Gerald Ford‘s scenic, seven-bedroom, nine-bath Beaver Creek pad ranked No. 4 for $12.995 million. Sixth: Chateau De Mon Reve in Arrowhead boasts seven bedrooms and eight baths for $11.95 million.
The entire list and deets:
Ritz bit.
Last Friday and Saturday night, the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch played host to the hip kids as VH1 brought its “Top 20 Countdown at VH1’s Winter Wonderland” show to the swank hotel. Bands that performed in and around the resort were Five for Fighting, Uncle Kracker and the Script.
No Sauce.
Sauce, the Fox Restaurant Concepts eatery in the Tech Center (5322 Tech Center Blvd.), closed. “It wasn’t as successful as our other Sauce locations,” said Debbie Porter, spokeswoman for the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based chain.
EAVESDROPPING
A woman and a man:
“The last time I broke up with my boyfriend, you took me out a lot.”
“But you didn’t look to me for physical comfort, as I recall.”
Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-630 AM. Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@denverpost.com.
