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A Powerful Form of Natural Medicine

If yoga could be found a pill, it might become one of the bestselling drug of all times. Like exercise, yoga improves well-being and prevents and alleviates numerous health issues. Yoga deepens our connection with our body, restoring wholeness to mind, body, and spirit.

  • Yoga helps improve mood
  • Yoga can help combat depression, stress, and anxiety
  • Yoga often offers more effective therapy for back pain
  • Yoga may ease and prevent arthritis
  • Yoga can help lower blood pressure naturally
  • Yoga often is effective in helping to manage diabetes
  • Yoga increases well-being and longevity
  • Yoga benefits you mentally, emotionally and spiritually

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Doctor's Orders: Yoga Therapy for Wellness

Yoga therapy is increasingly being incorporated by hospitals and doctors as part of the treatment for cancer, stress, depression, and more.

Can Yoga Help Depression in Kids?

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

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 for Depression Cure

Studies Offer Evidence Supporting Yoga for Depression Cure

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: Bringing Freedom through Yoga for MS

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

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

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

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

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.

Yoga Offers Peaceful Weight Loss - One Person's Story

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.

The Yoga of Eating: Holding The Edge

The Yoga of Eating: Holding The Edge

The yoga concept of holding the edge applies to most other areas of our lives, including our eating habits.

Yoga Exercises for a Hunched Back (Hyperkyphosis)

Yoga Exercises for a Hunched Back (Hyperkyphosis)

Yoga for hyperkyphosis seeks to reverse the early stages of the hunched back of dowager’s hump (a.k.a. hyperkyphosis) by gradually reshaping the soft tissues of the upper part of the trunk.

Yoga Helps Inner City Kids Deal with Stress, Improve Grades

Yoga Helps Inner City Kids Deal with Stress, Improve Grades

The Los-Angeles-based Accelerated School has introduced regular yoga classes to help their students cope with the overwhelming stress faced by inner city kids...

Yoga Exercises Reduce Chronic Lower Back Pain

Yoga Exercises Reduce Chronic Lower Back Pain

A recent study shows that using yoga therapy for the back may be useful to reduce chronic low back pain and reduce the use of pain medication...

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Gentle Yoga for Stress Relief and Relaxation

  This soothing, relaxing yoga stretches all the major muscle groups to improve flexibility and induce a state of peace and calm in both body and mind.

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Recommended Resources

  • The Essential Low Back Program: Relieve Pain & Restore Health (5 CDs Included)
  • Viniyoga Therapy for the Low Back, Sacrum & Hips with Gary Kraftsow
  • Viniyoga Therapy for the Upper Back, Neck & Shoulders with Gary Kraftsow
  • Backcare Yoga For Beginners

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