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.
Teaching is one of the most essential professions and also one of the most demanding. Yoga in Your School is designed to give teachers movement and breathing techniques...
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.
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...
Looking and sounding far younger than her 74 years, Jane Fonda talks about the “third act” of life in this wonderful TED video.In her speech at the recent TEDxWomen conference,...
Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr., in addition to starring in movies like Tropic Thunder, Iron Man, and Sherlock Holmes, has recently been busy with another new hobby - yoga...
The medicine of the future will have to focus on healing the epidemic of lifestyle-related diseases by changing behavior, says Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains in this...
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...
For anyone diagnosed with osteoporosis, there are two main concerns—increased risk of hip fractures and vertebral fractures.Vertebral compression fractures caused by the thin bone mass...
By the time most people reach middle age, a curious phenomenon will happen: They start growing down! Yes, most people slowly lose height as they get older. For many, by the time they...