Yoga provides a natural relief for anxiety. Harvard Medical School stated that a wide range of yoga practices suggest they can reduce the impact of exaggerated stress responses. As a result they may be helpful for both anxiety and depression. For this reason, yoga functions like other self-soothing techniques, such as meditation, relaxation, exercise, or even socialising …
Pineal Gland and the effects of Technology
The glow of technology suppresses and effects the pineal gland from functioning properly in the brain. This gland the Yogis have recognised for thousands of years. Did you know that the pineal gland produces melatonin? Likewise it is activated by darkness and inhibited by light. As well as suppressed by electromagnetic fields (EMF) released by …
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How and Why Meditation?
There are so many ways we can connect with our inner selves or meditate. Some people prefer sitting still for 30 minutes a day and witnessing their thoughts and mental chatter -or joining a retreat and sit for 10 days - or focusing on the body sensations - or letting the thoughts go with the …
Going backwards by banning Yoga from schools
How can Yoga for kids be harmful? Yoga creates flexibility of body and mind - flexible and strong like the willow tree - open gracious and giving. Or brittle closed and fearful - what do you want your kids to be? Read this article and let me know what you think! A recent controversy has …
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Yoga in the Sun
Personally I don't like yoga in the sun or out in the open around people and the elements. I prefer to practise yoga so I can listen internally and connect with my intuition & become aware of a deeper awareness that may be stored up in areas within body - as it was said to …
There’s no money in healthy people
There is no money in healthy people nor dead people it's those in between is where the money is! Says a documentary Forks over Knives. Let food be thy medicine - Hippocrates Plants have protein as well as meat.
The Healing Power Of Yoga For Brain Injuries
In honor of Brain Injury Awareness month, former pro snowboarder Kevin Pearce talks about how key the practice is to his ongoing brain injury recovery. On December 31, 2009, less than two months before the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, snowboarder Kevin Pearcecrashed his head into an icy half pipe in Park City, Utah. The traumatic …
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Acne Ayurveda treatments
Other than knowing your dosha ( Ayurvedic body type) through an Ayurvedic consultation to treat skin disorders, below are 3,useful herbs Three Herbs for that Perfect, Glowing Skin Want to have that perfectly glowing skin but not sure what to do about it? Well, the answer lies in your own surroundings! We often fail to …
Yoga and Animals
Why Yoga and animals don't mix Yoga is over 5000 years old, it's one of the oldest forms of healing therapy. Way back in India, animals were observed in nature, and noted for their particular abilities and many yoga postures were taken from them.