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The Truth About Back Pain—It’s Not Always What It Seems

The causes of back pain are often complex, and holistic approaches like yoga may at times provide the most effective relief of painful symptoms.

"Yoga Breaks" Teach Healthy Living Skills

“Yoga breaks” help kids improve focus and their ability to learn new information, says author Debra Freeman of YogainMySchool.com.

Yoga Helps Kids With Special Needs Find A Calm Place Within

Students at the Diener School in Potomac, Maryland, are finding their inner yogis—weekly yoga classes are part of the curriculum....

Girl, 13, Defies Need for Scoliosis Surgery, Takes Up Yoga and Breakdancing Instead!

A British teenager diagnosed with scoliosis has defied the need for major back surgery by taking up a serious yoga routine.

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.

Can Teaching Yoga in Schools Lead to a Better World?

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...

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.

Karen O’Donnel Clarke: Bringing Freedom through Yoga for MS

Karen O’Donnel Clarke, like many of her yoga students, suffers from Multiple Sclerosis.

 

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  • 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...
 

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