Yoga News and Blogs

Yoga improves not just the quantity of sleep but the quality of it. Naturally relaxing and flushing out toxins,
these breathing techniques are age-old and tried and trusted. Learn more about how to cure insomnia with yoga
here.

Kids in the 4th grade are learning what we all desk workers need to learn. A few yoga poses to re-energize
the mind and body. Something we all can learn from. The article also talks about the stress from learning
and how yoga helps.

Women have always found it tough to get through those four days of their monthly cycle. Yoga may be the right
answer to those days.

Yoga is neither a treatment nor a one stop shop for any disease, least of all for hypertension. It is rather
a way of life that slows down your pace and helps you relax in a routine day of stress and problems.

According to the American College of Sports Medicine, exercise can be an effective stress reducer. States Dr.Christina
Geithner, Ph.D., "exercise serves as a distraction from the stressor, and results in reduced muscle tension and
cortisol secretion."

Can yoga help depression?  Studies performed by the National Institute for Mental Health and Neuroscience
in India showed sudharshan kriya, a pranayama (or yogic breathing technique), to be up to 73% effective in
the treatment of depression.

The American Journal of Hypertension has tracked a study which brings to light a way to keep off tablets to
lower your blood pressure. Instead, doing meditation regulates your blood pressure, and brings back your life
to those pill-less days.

Yoga asanas and pranayanas for dealing with anxiety.

Asanas and pranayanas described for anxiety.Asanas:Single leg raiseDouble leg raiseCobra poseChild pose Sage
TwistPranayanas:Ujjayi (Victorious Breath)Alternate-Nostril Breathing

Yoga can help with anxiety as an add-on treatment to psychotherapy and medication. The practice of yoga can
develop a healthier nervous system, a more peaceful state of mind, better concentration and focus to control
fears.