The Role Flexibility Plays In Improving Your Health
Increased flexibility provides you with a number of health benefits. When you are more flexible, you feel better. Your body works better. You are less likely to become injured. You can exercise without discomfort and without getting too sore the next day read more...
A randomised comparative trial of yoga and relaxation to reduce stress and anxiety
Yoga appears to provide a comparable improvement in stress, anxiety and health status compared to relaxation read more...
Sensory Integration Laboratory
Sensory defensiveness is a larger reaction to and less tolerance of typical levels of sound, touch, smell, lights, and movement in the environment that most others would find harmless read more...
Say 'Om.' Yoga and other therapies good for chronic pain, study says
Researchers reviewed 20 clinical trials involving eight mind-body therapies for adults who suffered from chronic, non-malignant pain, to assess their feasibility, effectiveness in pain management and safety.The findings are published in Volume 8 of the journal Pain Medicine read more...
Health, Hope and HIV
"Healing does not come only out of little bottles, as many people want it to," says Jon Kaiser, M.D., a San Francisco HIV specialist and author of Healing HIV: How to Rebuild Your Immune System (HealthFirst Press, 1998). "Healing comes from inside. That's why I strongly recommend that patients with HIV take time each day to practice deep relaxation. Yoga quiets the mind, improves breathing and circulation, and reduces stress. Daily practice can help support the immune system in conjunction with a comprehensive HIV treatment program." read more...
Effects of Hatha Yoga Practice on the Health-Related Aspects of Physical Fitness
Ten healthy, untrained volunteers (nine females and one male), ranging in age from 18–27 years, were studied to determine the effects of hatha yoga practice on the health-related aspects of physical fitness, including muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, cardiorespiratory fitness, body composition, and pulmonary function read more...
Studies show yoga has multiple benefits
Yoga induces a feeling of well-being in healthy people, and can reverse the clinical and biochemical changes associated with metabolic syndrome read more...
To Stretch or Not to Stretch? The Answer Is Elastic
The truth is that after dozens of studies and years of debate, no one really knows whether stretching helps, harms, or does anything in particular for performance or injury rates read more...
38 Ways Yoga Keeps YOU Fit! "Yoga.Journal"
As it happens, Western science is starting to provide some concrete clues as to how yoga works to improve health, heal aches and pains, and keep sickness at bay read more...
Yoga May Aid Body Image, Cut Eating Disorders
Yoga may make women feel better about their bodies, steering them away from eating disorders, a new study shows read more...
Exercise and yoga improves quality of life in women with early-stage breast cancer
Two studies report that exercise and yoga can help maintain and in some cases improve quality of life in women with early-stage breast cancer read more...
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