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A Workshop with Sandra Sabatini

by Elizabeth Irvine

The author, who was initially exceedingly stressed out, late due to train cancellations, eloquently describes an inspirational workshop she attended with the renowned yoga teacher ...

A Yogi called Helen - and the Unready Student

by Mike Webster

Helen, the author learned after he was introduced to her by his father, has been his father’s nanny when he was a small child in the family home on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. She ...

Ashtanga Yoga - Feeling Fully Alive!

by Rowena Warren

The author describes her quest to learn Ashtanga yoga, which took her to a small studio in India where she studied with its founder, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his grandson, Sharat...

Case Study: How I Came To Yoga

by Vernette Butler

The author gives an account of encountering yoga at school but, finding it more meditation than exercise, did not continue. She apparently had a continuing battle with her weight, ...

Dru Yoga for Healing

by Paulette Agnew

The gap between modern medicine, quantum physics and ancient forms of health care, is closing fast. The science of Dru Yoga plays an essential part in this journey of discovery, as...

Dru Yoga for Wellbeing and Resilience to Stress

by Jane Clapham

This article reports on a randomized controlled study of the effect of a six-week programme of Dru Yoga, involving at least one 60-minute session a week, on the stress levels of em...

Dyspepsia and Yoga Therapy

by Shama (Sara) Palmer

Dyspepsia is a medical condition that an NHS survey has reported affects about 40% of the adult UK population. It is characterized by recurrent pain in the upper abdomen, heartburn,...

Hatha Yoga - The Energetics of Movement Transformation

by Lillian Irene Lovas

In this article Lovas explores how movement can be a way of motivating the inevitable changes that happen in our lives, how movement can be applied to therapeutic change and person...

Kundalini Yoga: Powerful, Transformational and Healing

by Barbara Lyndley

This article focuses on the benefits of Kundalini Yoga. The author explains what Kundalini yoga is all about and how it works at the physical, mental and spiritual levels.  She a...

Mudra Yoga

by Sandeep Khurana

Mudra Yoga, a system of alternative healing, has its origins as far back as the earliest Hindu scriptures and texts, and is employed in the practices of Dharma, Buddhism, Tantra an...

Partners Yoga

by Jan Williamson

Yoga practice is extremely versatile; it can be practised in solitude or in the more social atmosphere of a class situation and can be modified to suit age, ability and need.

Positive Health of Mind and Body

by Ruth White

The author illustrates what she calls the “universal natural law that whatever we do in this life will eventually come back in exactly the same proportions” by relating the story o...

Progressive Yoga: Practice Tailored to the Individual.

by Yvonne Campkin

The point of yoga, according to the author, is to work with one's own body, with the awareness that you are an individual with different needs from the next person....and that ev...

Rebalancing: The Art of Transforming a Successful Yoga Instructor's Life and Career

by Caroline Ratner

Rachel Krentzman, had a thriving Yoga and Physical Therapy practice in a light filled studio located in the lovely Bird Rock section of La Jolla California. Rachel had met every go...

Ruth White - Iyengar Yoga Teacher

by Ruth White

Back in the Seventies, freelance photographer Ruth White was suffering from a lot of back pain. Years of bad posture and carrying heavy photographic equipment had taken their toll ...

Sipping from the Fountain of Youth

by Naomi Sophia Call

As far back as 323 BC, the search for the elusive fountain of youth, the elixir of life that would take away aches and magically reverse aging began. Countless individuals repeatedl...

Strengthening Digestion with Yoga and Ayurveda

by Meggan Brummer

This article focuses on our digestion and the ayurvedic wisdom of food and individual constitution (made up of Pitta, Vata and/or Kapha). The author touches on "where and how we ea...

Surviving Ruth White at Grimstone Manor

by Ruth White

A teacher of  Iyengar yoga, who also sells  yoga accessories, such as mats, belts, blocks, videos, etc.,  the author says yoga is very much about “looking within”.

Teaching Yoga in Japan

by Ruth White

Ruth White tells of her experience teaching yoga in Japan. She found the Japanese a delight to teach because of their will power and tenacity, their efficiency and their kindness, ...

Teaching Yoga to Young Schoolchildren

by Lidia Flisek

Lidia Flisek, a qualified yoga teacher, initiated the Body Awareness project in a primary school six years ago, aimed at teaching schoolchildren important aspects of yoga.