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Improve Health and Wellness with Yoga

Yoga has been used to improve overall health and wellness for thousands of years. In the past two decades, people in the United States and other western industrialized nations have begun to embrace the possibilities of alternative and traditional or complementary medicines. The regular practice of yoga offers a full range of benefits to improve health and wellness. Yoga helps to regulate the various systems of the body, including respiratory and circulatory. In addition, yoga is beneficial for the muscles, organs and joints of the body. Practicing yoga helps to keep all these areas of the body functioning well and … Continue reading →

Book Review: Yoga and Optimum Health After 40

Yoga offers abundant physical, mental and spiritual benefits at all phases of life. As we age, yoga helps us age gracefully and maintain health, wellness, flexibility, balance and general physical and emotional wellness. Yoga and Optimum Health After 40 by Yvonne Seltzer is written for the over 40 crowd and is a good read for people new to yoga and those already practicing yoga. The book addresses the benefits of yoga for a wide range of conditions that increase after age 40, as well as general anti-aging benefits of yoga and how yoga and a healthy lifestyle can promote healthy … Continue reading →

Safety Tips for Your Yoga Practice

Yoga is an ancient practice that offers significant physical, health, mental and spiritual benefits. While yoga is safe and effective for improving strength, flexibility, balance and overall health and wellness, there can be a risk of injury if an asana is not performed properly or you push your body too far. There are some tips to help you avoid injuries in your yoga practice, whether you take classes at a yoga studio or practice at home. Taking the time to learn the poses and follow some basic safety tips can help you prevent injuries that can derail your practice. Many … Continue reading →

Tips to Quit Smoking with Yoga

Like any addiction, cigarettes are difficult to quit. All addicts say they will quit tomorrow, or next week, but these promises seldom come to fruition. There are several ways that yoga can help you keep the promise you make to yourself and your loved ones and quit smoking. Smoking stimulates the pleasure areas of the brain, which makes quitting even more difficult. In addition, smoking is temporarily calming and there is an emotional aspect to smoking that interferes with your willingness to quit. One of the biggest ways that yoga helps to break the nicotine habit is that the practice … Continue reading →

Psychological Benefits of Yoga for Teens

Yoga is well known to offer a wide range of physical and psychological benefits to yogis of all ages. However, there are specific benefits to practicing yoga during the teen years. Adolescence is a tumultuous time of life and it is common for mental health problems to surface during these years. Recent research suggests that yoga classes provide specific psychological benefits to kids in high school. The research was conducted by Harvard Medical School at a high school in Massachusetts. For the purposes of the study, they assigned students randomly to either a typical PE class or yoga. In the … Continue reading →

Yoga for Eyesight

The ancient practice of yoga has been shown to offer a wide variety of benefits for overall health and wellness, as well as specific benefits for many health conditions. You have likely heard about some of the many benefits of yoga, but you may not have heard that yoga is beneficial for eyesight. Yoga has been shown to help preserve and improve eyesight and relieve eye strain that can occur from working on the computer for long hours, watching television, reading late at night and generally not resting the eyes. Through the practice of yoga, you learn to relax the … Continue reading →

DVD Reviews: Yoga for Yourself

Women have specific needs and concerns throughout every stage of life that can be addressed and nourished through the practice of yoga. The mind, body, spirit connection, emotional benefits and physical benefits of yoga are useful at every stage of life and specifically address women’s wellness. Yoga for Yourself is a practice that is designed to provide a yoga practice that is tailored to the specific needs of women. The poses, breathing exercises and gentle flowing sequences offer abundant benefits for all women. The practice is led by renowned yoga instructor Ann Richmond to be centering, calming and exhilarating. The … Continue reading →

6 Reasons to Try Yoga

Reasons to try yoga There are many physical, emotional and spiritual benefits to the practice of yoga. If you have been considering trying yoga, there are many reasons to give it a try. Yoga offers a wide range of physical benefits. The practice has been used for thousands of years and modern science has shown yoga to benefit a range of health conditions, including high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, arthritis and many others. Yoga helps to control pain. Whether you are experiencing pain or just want to feel better in general, yoga may help. When yoga is combined with meditation, … Continue reading →

How to Choose a Certified Yoga Therapist

Yoga therapy is a natural approach to health and wellness that utilizes the techniques and philosophy of yoga to provide holistic, natural healing for a variety of health conditions and healing after an injury. The therapist combines physical therapy with the ancient healing art of yoga to provide personalized care that helps to relieve pain and promote healing and general wellness. Modern medicine has begun to embrace alternative therapies and natural treatments, including yoga therapy. In fact, a growing number of doctors are recommending yoga therapy to their patients for a wide variety of conditions. As with any professional, there … Continue reading →

Yoga Classes at Work

Yoga offers a variety of benefits and continues to grow in popularity, as more people discover the many benefits. Previously practiced in studios and gyms, yoga is now found in many places, including schools, university campuses and even in the work place. Yoga has been practiced at work for centuries in India and countries in the East, such as Tibet and China with success. A growing number of US companies are embracing yoga and incorporating it into their company wellness programs. There are good reasons for this trend. Yoga offers unique benefits in work environments, which are often rife with … Continue reading →