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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything you ever learned about anatomy may be wrong. We are not muscles and bones linked together by ligaments and tendons. Rather, muscles and bones are components of a large, integrated fascial network, which up till recently has been largely ignored.
This is a topic that Eva Norlyk Smith of Yoga U Online explores in a recent...
By Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D., RYT-500Judith Hanson Lasater, in a recent teleclass on Yoga U Online Trainings commented, “People often ask me if it’s necessary to practice yoga every day. I tell them, no, not at all. Just practice whenever you want to feel good!"Most of us relish our yoga practice exactly for that simple reason—it makes us feel good...
By Emma Needleman
A recent article in Reuters tells the story of Aisha Chapra, a yoga instructor and former social worker who volunteers her time teaching yoga to the...
By Emma Needleman
Weight Watchers’ big selling point used to be that you could eat whatever you want and still lose weight—provided, of course, that you kept your daily calorie...
A recent British study has found that brain functions, including memory, can begin declining as early as the mid-forties and possibly earlier. This decline includes memory,...
When is the best time to deal with stress? Before you get all wigged out! Try this free online yoga practice by Zev Tambor of Tribeca Yoga to strengthen your body and get ready for the...
By Nan Palmer, RYT-500 and Amy M. Jarvis, RYT 500With the aging population, yoga teachers are often called on to work with people with a wide range of physical challenges or health...
Nearly 40 percent of all Americans are deficient in vitamin B12 and this deficiency could be doubling their chances of developing Alzheimer’s as well putting them at risk for a host of...
