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6 Great Superfoods for Yoga Lovers

Superfoods will increase strength and stamina, decrease inflammation, strengthen your immune system, and reduce the risk of cancer. Here are 6 superfoods that will help supercharge your nutritional intake and give you more energy for your yoga practice.

Challenges Faced by Today's Children - Can Yoga Help?

It is not easy growing up in today’s society. Childhood obesity, ADD/ADHD, trauma, stress, lack of physical activity—these are issues that most adults in today’s society did not have to contend with when growing up.

Can Yoga Help Depression in Kids?

The saddest statistic we’ve heard in a long time is this: children are the fastest growing market for antidepressants.

How Science Supports Yoga as a Cure for Depression

Time and time again this miracle cure has proven not only its efficacy, but its lack of negative side effects—and plethora of positive side benefits—as well. What is this miracle drug? It’s not a drug at all: its exercise.

Studies Offer Evidence Supporting Yoga As an Effective Way to Combat Depression

Exercise can provide up to over 95% of the mood-improvement that prescription drugs afford. In other words, yoga class may be the new-and-improved Prozac.

Yoga for Breast Cancer Relieves Anxiety, Stress, and Treatment Side Effects

Studies show that yoga for breast cancer can ease the distress and depression that often accompany the disease.

Yoga Aids Natural Disaster Survivors, Helps with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Survivors of earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and other natural disasters often find themselves coping with emotional--if not physical--wounds. Fortunately, studies reveal that yoga can help in such emotionally difficult times.

Turning to Yoga for Scoliosis: Elise Browning Miller’s Story

For many, sitting up straight all day is a challenge, but for those with scoliosis, sitting up “straight” may not even be an option. Elise Browning Miller, however, found a path to comfort and is now helping others.

For Natural Insomnia Relief, Try Vitamin B Complex

Taking Vitamin B, especially Vitamin B12, can promote healthy sleeping patterns and deep rest throughout the night.

Which is the Best Type of Yoga for Weightloss?

Yoga can help you loose weight, not just through aerobic activity, but also through two other factors that are unique to the practice.

Yoga Offers Peaceful Weight Loss - One Person's Story

Read author B. Passalacqua's account of how yoga helped him develop a more peaceful relationship with his body and lose weight.

 

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  • With this blog post, we continue our series of quotes from renowned yoga masters, who have devoted their life to the practice of yoga and meditation. We hope you, as we have, will find inspiration and guidance for your yoga practice and life from their wisdom and insights. Yogacharya B.K.S.Iyengar is a living legend, who has been practicing and...
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