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Yoga for Pregnancy Care of Back and Pelvis
My belly is like a balloon, bursting to pop, there doesn’t seem to be any more room left, I am eight months pregnant, my baby isn’t due for another month. Each time I climb a stair,...more
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Yoga for Stress Relief - Tap into Numerous Health Benefits
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...more
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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...more
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Yoga for Weight Loss and Management
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 ...more
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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...more
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Yoga Nidra Practices for Stress Relief and Better Sleep
Total Yoga Nidra is a form of yoga that requires no physical movement whatsoever: Anyone who can breathe, and anyone who has ever, even once in their lives, fallen asleep, can pract...more
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Yoga Remedies for Body and Mind
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...more
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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...more
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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...more
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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...more
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Yoga Therapy for Perimenopause / Menopause
Many women discover that appropriate yoga practice is a natural support for a healthy menstrual cycle, including the experience of turning points in a woman’s life such as perimenop...more
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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...more
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Yoga, Dietary and Lifestyle Approaches for Prostate Problems
In this article which focuses on prostate problems, the author says that although approximately 50% of Australian men may experience some type of prostate problem at some stage of ...more
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Yoga: Oneness of body and mind
How do we keep healthy and happy? That has been, is and will be the 64,000 dollar question.more
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What we choose to believe about the world and ourselves determines the quality of life we have. Our beliefs dictate how well we perform, interact, grow our businesses and spot oppo...more
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You are what your Emotions Are
The explanation of unconscious facial expressions is representative of questioning idioms. That our facial expressions reflect our emotions was a stratagem first articulated by Char...more
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You Can Change your Neural Pathways to Change your Life – Here’s How
I have always loved to look at the science and how behaviour changes. I am a development fanatic with an acute hunger for knowledge in neuroscience, psychology, neuroplasticity, pe...more
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You Don't have to be Perfect to be Free of Back Pain
The article begins by referring to a recent study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which did MRI scans of 98 people who did not have back pain, and found that m...more
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You Wouldn't Be Normal if You Didn't React in an Abnormal Way!
The author raises a somewhat profound question – what is normal? He clarifies that normal is different from what is usual, but that normality is unusual because you have to react...more
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Young Lives Snuffed Out …Marks didn’t Add Up?
The headlines scream at you every morning. One dreads to switch on news channels nowadays. Reason: Reports of students ending their lives over a few measly marks just hit you betwe...more
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Your Body is Being Shaped by Your Shoes
Shoes are shaping the humans who wear them - and not for the better. Stiff ankles, tight calves, bunions, and hammer toes. Each of these ailments can be directly linked to what kind...more
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This article explains the importance of a balance between omega 3 and omega 6 oils. The widespread use of common and cheap vegetables oils by the food industry means that the desira...more
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Your CAM Practice and the Advertising Standards Authority Ltd - Time to take Action
The issues explored in this article are of vital importance to the success of your business and to the freedom of your patients to choose a CAM practitioner and treatment. If you r...more
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Your Healthy Heart: Herbal and Nutritional Approaches
The author argues the case for integrated medicine as an approach to an imbalanced heart or circulatory system and the precursors such as low or high blood pressure, angina, harden...more
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This article focuses on how our life is reflected back to us. To begin with, the author introduces an interesting perspective on alchemy, defining lead as negative, repetitive thou...more
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Zen Meditation in Kerala - the Spiritual Quest with no Technique to Learn
This is how it is; this is what we have to learn! That there is no technique that will make life wonderful all the time but that there is an attitude we can adopt that accepts that ...more
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Zen-bodytherapy is a system of bodytherapy and somatic education whose goals are to align and balance the structure, function and energy of the body.more
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Zero Balancing (ZB for short, pronounced Zee Bee), can be defined as the art and skill of balancing body energy with body structure through touch.more
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Zoe Smith: On the Road to Recovery
Champion weightlifter, Zoe Smith experienced an injury in June 2016 which blighted her hopes of competing as part of Team GB at the Olympic Games in Rio. Here she discusses her inju...more