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yoga for osteoporosis - New York Times

Osteoporosis is a tremendous health concern for women over 50, causing more than 700,000 spinal fractures and more than 300,000 hip fractures each year in the United States alone. It is well known that weight-bearing exercise can help build bone mass, but little has been known about the benefits of yoga for osteoporosis.

Free Yoga Video: Pelvic Floor Tuneup - Two Yoga Techniques to Deepen Your Breath

Breathing has many benefits. For one, it keeps you alive! In addition to circulating oxygen to all parts of the body, however, deep, diaphragmatic breathing has numerous other important benefits. It helps... Read more
Yoga for womens health

Yoga for Pelvic Floor Disorders - New Studies Suggest Yoga Can Help Prevent Incontinence

Pelvic floor disorders are surprisingly common. After the age of 55, issues like incontinence, prolapse and pelvic pain become increasingly prevalent and by age 80, one out of two women will have experienced... Read more
The Many Benefits of Starting a Gratitude Practice

How to Start a Daily Gratitude Practice - 6 Useful Tips

Want to sleep better, enjoy more fulfilling relationships, experience more positive emotions, greater life satisfaction, and lower levels of depression and stress? Introduce a daily gratitude practice... Read more

5 Reasons Your Immune System Gets Weaker with Age and How Yoga Can Help

Even though I had a flu shot, I still managed to come down with bronchitis last year (I’ve tended to get that since I was young). The fever and reduced ability to breathe was really debilitating. It took... Read more

4 Things You Can Do To Make a Difference: A Message from Seane Corn, Doug Keller, Cyndi Lee, Roger Cole, and Other Leading Yoga Teachers

"There is no difference in souls, only in the ideas about ourselves that we wear.” ~B.K.S. Iyengar As yogis, watching the current election cycle unfold, has been a painful experience. Everything we see in the... Read more

Yoga Leads to Enhanced Body Image Study Shows

Women and men are constantly bombarded by images of air brushed, perfectly proportioned individuals. Sadly, these figures not only define our expectations, but also perpetuate suffering and negative self-image... Read more
yoga for healthy aging

Yoga for Healthy Aging: Enhance Agility to Prevent Fractures

Agility in yoga is the ability to move easily through a series of asana positions while you stay balanced and in control. Some everyday situations that require agility are getting in and out of a car (... Read more
Natasha Rizopoulos cuing yoga student in navasana boat pose video tutorial

How to Do Boat Pose in Yoga (Navasana) - Free Online Yoga Video with Natasha Rizopoulos

For efficient, one-stop shopping core stabilization, master yoga teacher Natasha Rizopoulos looks to Navasana. Also known as Boat Pose, this yoga posture works the transverse abdominus, the erector spinae, and... Read more

Yoga Research Comes of Age: Scientific Review Charts the Many Health Benefits of Yoga - Part I

The field of yoga research has skyrocketed in the past decade. This means that we are learning far more about why and how yoga works (and doesn’t work) than we have ever had before. This is exciting news for... Read more

Yoga and Meditation Boost Brain Function In Aging Adults Study Shows

Most of us experience some signs of decreased mental function as we age. A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease shows that weekly yoga and daily meditation practice may boost memory and reduce... Read more