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Unwind and Relax

by Ruth White

Using examples of a student with acute psoriasis and her own problems with chronic back pain, regular columnist, yoga teacher Ruth White, describes how yoga was used to completely ...

What Is Yogic Massage? How Yogic Massage Found Me

by Narayani Guibarra

The technique was invented by Brigette Hass, a tutor of the MTI who also teaches holistic massage, energy awareness, dance and movement and meditation. Yogic massage is a form of h...

Yoga and Ayurveda for Headaches and Migraines

by Meggan Brummer

According to Aled Francis, a Manipulative Physiotherapist from the Sydney Headache Clinic, treatment has traditionally focused on identifying certain features such as the frequen...

Yoga and Ayurveda for Reducing High Blood Pressure

by Meggan Brummer

This article focuses on specific Ayurvedic and yoga remedies for high blood pressure. The author explains what causes high blood pressure, how to recognize if you have it and what ...

Yoga and Breathing Exercises for Mother and Child

by Elizabeth Irvine

Stress is not just for adults - adults and children alike can become worn down by the pressures of day-to-day living. This article offers a range of practical and fun remedies that...

Yoga and Dietary Tips for Good Liver Health

by Meggan Brummer

This article focuses on the liver, an organ that plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing, and Yoga exercises aimed at strengthening sluggish livers.

Yoga and Macrobiotics for Back Pain

by Meggan Brummer

Meggan Brummer begins by looking at the benefits of using ginger externally. According to Macrobiotics, a ginger compress can be used to relieve back pain, menstrual cramps, arthri...

Yoga for Health, Consciousness and Balance

by Jeff Logan

What is Yoga? Yoga is a pragmatic science and philosophy devoted to the realization of the true Self and thereby the exalted state of unalloyed bliss and inner peace.

Yoga for Mental Health

by Tammy Lorraine Majchrzak

In this article on Yoga for Mental Health the author shares how she discovered and achieved better health and balance within through this practice. She also explains the overall be...

Yoga for Mothers and Babies

by Jan Williamson

An important principle of Yoga is that attention and stability and ease and pleasure can exist within the body side by side. A sense of power and control while being at ease and ...

Yoga for Parkinson's

by Jeanette Macturk

Research has shown Yoga to be the most beneficial alternative therapy towards helping people with Parkinson's.

Yoga for Stress Relief - Tap into Numerous Health Benefits

by Paul Edwards

Yoga is one of the best ways of coping with the stress of modern life. It doesn't involve drugs or great expense, and can be practised by anyone of any age in any physical condition...

Yoga For Weight Loss

by Meggan Brummer

The author reports that a 2005 study at the National Cancer Institute at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle found that 15 500 people in their fifties who regul...

Yoga for Weight Loss and Management

by Meggan Brummer

In this article on Yoga for Weight Loss and Management, the author says obesity has reached epidemic proportions globally, and a new survey has also found that half of the British ...

Yoga is Health Giving

by Ruth White

Yoga in today's stressed-out world, says Ruth White, is as relevant as it was when it originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. It helps slow down an overactive mind while, at...

Yoga Remedies for Body and Mind

by Mira Mehta

Mira Mehta explains how yoga can not only counter the pressures of modern living, but also alleviate many health conditions including back pain, aches and pain in the limbs, respir...

Yoga The Heart of Healing

by Howard Kent

While the ancient Greeks were postulating that mind and body were interwoven, the sages of India were exploring the same fundamental subject and coming to the same conclusion – onl...

Yoga Therapy

by Dr Robin Monro and Venice Allan

Yoga therapy is a holistic therapy that draws on practices that have been part of the traditional Indian health-care system for thousands of years, and is an approach that has prov...

Yoga Therapy

by Robin E Monro

Although general yoga classes can often help people resolve mild health problems, they may be ineffective, or even harmful, for those with more serious conditions. With yoga ther...

Yoga Tips for Healthy Living

by Nicola Phoenix

This article touches on a few aspects within the vast texts, teachings, techniques, philosophy and disciplines of yoga. It looks into the various stages of the great sage Patanjali...