Yoga Journal
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Yoga Poses to Ease Anxiety
Some 40 million Americans over the age of 18 are afflicted with anxiety disorders in a given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. The American Psychiatric Association notes that these disorders are different from normal nervousness and include overwhelming feelings of panic an
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8 Yoga Poses to Help You Sleep Better
Insomnia-the inability to get to sleep or to sleep soundly-can be either temporary or chronic, lasting a few days to weeks. It affects a whopping 54 percent of adults in the United States at one time or another, and insomnia that lasts more than six weeks may affect from 10 to 15 percent of adults a
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Yoga Can Help You Manage Weight, Study Says
Regular yoga practice is associated with mindful eating, and people who eat mindfully are less likely to be obese, according to a recent study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The study, which was a follow-up on an earlier study that revealed middle-age gained less weigh
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Can Yoga Help You Get Rid of Love Handles?
Many beginning yoga students are drawn to yoga because they've heard it does wonders for a person's physique. Even though most serious practitioners eventually abandon their goals of changing flab to fab in favor of a more holistic approach to health, there's nothing wrong with targeting a specific
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Meditation for Everyone (Even You!)
A good deal of mystique has grown around meditation, yet it is one of the most natural of our human capacities. You've no doubt had moments in your life when you were not thinking or analyzing your experience, but simply "going with the flow." In these moments, there was no past or future, no separa
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Stress Less with Yoga
Meet Mark: When something stressful happens, he feels energized. His heart races, his senses heighten-he even feels as though his thoughts speed up. Mark prides himself on his ability to face problems head-on, but he admits that it's becoming difficult to turn this intensity off. Lately he's been feeling more on edge than on top of his game. He's developed headaches and insomnia, and he's beginning to wonder if they're related to stress. He'd like to feel better, but he can't imagine himself changing his full-throttle approach to life. Without stress, how would he ever get anything done?
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Tone Your Arms with Yoga
Vanity aside, strong arms do much more than allow you to wear tank tops or spaghetti straps with confidence. They make the rest of your life easier, by enabling you to lift and carry things like groceries, babies, packages-you name it-without strain.To develop the explosive strength that weight trai
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Yoga for Runners
Sage Rountree, 35, discovered that yoga buoyed her athletic performance when she trained for her first marathon in 2002. "I hurt less, recovered faster, and learned breathwork and mantras to cope with the tedious intensity of running long distances," she says. Now, as a yoga teacher and the author o
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Find Your Bliss with Yoga
This guide to finding contentment draws upon yoga philosophy and wisdom, and provide steps for increasing your awareness of the joyful moments available in everyday life.
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Here Comes the Sun: An Easy Yoga Routine for Summer and Beyond
Surya Namaskar, or Sun Salutation, is a series of postures that warms, strengthens, and aligns the entire body. It's serves as an all-purpose yoga tool, kind of like a hammer that's also a saw and a screwdriver, if you can imagine such a thing. This sequence might be considered the classic one, but
- Your Best Summer Body
Love Your Body (Even in Swimsuit Season)
Millions of Americans-most of them women-struggle each day with feelings of shame and inadequacy about their physical selves. In fact, studies have shown that the majority of American women don't like what they see in the mirror. (And obsessing about how you're going to look at the beach in a few we
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Five Steps Closer to Calm
If it's hard for you to still your mind to meditate, the senior teachers at Kripalu Center have developed a five-step approach that could help. Follow these steps and allow yourself to fall into a deep meditative state that will reveal a closer connection to the present and help calm you when you're upset. Breathe. Focusing on your breathing is an essential practice that draws your awareness inward and helps you experience the presence and flow of energy. Relax. The more you relax, the more you deepen awareness of sensation. Feel. Let your sense of feeling move beyond physical sensation. ...