In our Yoga Blog we will report on yoga news, trends and happenings throughout the world.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 by Amber Baker
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The Yoga Genome Project
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“Doctors can’t prescribe until yogi’s describe” is the motto of the newly announced Yoga Genome Project created by the Yoga Care Foundation (YCF). This ambitious research project is designed to help medical professionals decipher the many styles of yoga so they can effectively recommend its use as a therapeutic modality.
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Friday, September 09, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Yoga Alliance Launches YA+
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The Yoga Alliance recently announced the launch of a companion organization: YA+. The benefits of the new program were touted in an email announcement sent out to current Yoga Alliance members. The intention of the program appears to be a response to community feedback and as an effort to make the Yoga Alliance more relevant in the ongoing debate about regulating yoga teacher training.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga Asana Championships?
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The concept of yoga as a sport is a controversial one, with outspoken proponents of Bikram yoga pushing for yoga to be recognized at the level of the Olympic Games. The 2011 Illionois Yoga Asana Championships took place recently, with more than 100 participants given three minutes to demonstrate up to seven poses, “judged on strength, flexibility, expression, completion, control, grace, poise and the more ambiguous, ‘heart of the yogi.’”
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Meditation Shown to Change Your Brain
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Meditation doesn’t just affect the way you feel, new studies show that it actually changes the way your brain processes information. In two recent studies, people with meditation practices not only reacted differently to stimulus than those without, their brains handled the input in entirely different ways.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011 by Timothy Burgin
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A Video Game for your Chakras!
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 New Age guru Deepak Chopra continues to lead the way in spiritual marketing with his upcoming Xbox 360 Kinect and Wii video game Leela. The goal of Leela is to navigate through 43 exercises that explore the chakras, your seven main energy centers in the body. Through the use of motion sensors, players will be guided to breathe deeply, relax and to move through several body movement exercises.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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NYC Bikram Studio Loses Yoga War
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When Bikram Yoga Manhattan sent out their newsletter last week announcing studio closure of their Penn Station location, owner and director Raffael Pacitti lambasted nearby studios Yoga to the People (YTTP) for offering Bikram classes in all but name for over 50% cheaper, making it “impossible to continue.” The charges stem from Pacitti’s complaints that YTTP recently opened three locations within walking distance of Penn Station, offering “traditional” or “hot yoga” classes that are identical to Bikram from instructors untrained in the Bikram approach.
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Friday, August 05, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga Helps Fibromyalgia Patients
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A new study by researchers at Canada’s York University suggests that yoga may reduce pain and restore healthier cortisol levels among women suffering from Fibromyalgia, whose levels are commonly depleted (resulting in greater overall stress). This the first study to demonstrate improvements in cortisol among Fibromyalgia patients practicing yoga.
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Friday, July 29, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga Therapy and Research Symposiums
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Yoga therapy is a relatively recent innovation; while texts on the therapeutic applications of yoga exist, yoga was traditionally taught to promote optimal stages of spiritual attunement. The field has grown remarkably in the past decade, informed by recent advances in medicine and spurred on by increasing consumer demand for complementary and alternative treatment modalities. If you are an interested yoga practitioner, yoga therapist or instructor, or simply curious, two upcoming conferences will help you learn more about the exciting frontiers in yoga’s evolving role in the US healthcare system and the scientific community.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Yoga Helps Philly Parkinson's Patients
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Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that creates impaired movement or trembling of the muscles for approximately 6 million people in the US. Traditional medical treatment is not very hopeful as the prescribed pharmaceuticals can loose their effectiveness in controlling PD’s symptoms and can also cause severe side effects. But at a small studio in the Philadelphia area, yoga instructor Theresa Conroy has been bringing hope to Parkinson’s Disease patients for the last five years.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Pranayma Reported Causing Deaths
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A recent article headline suggests that the widespread use of Kapalabhati pranayama (“skull-polishing breath”) in India—promoted by Swami Ramdev’s popular television campaigns and yoga camps—is dangerous and may lead to death, echoing lesser admonitions voiced by B.K.S. Iyengar and other yogis concerned about the impact of selling Kapalabhati as a quick fix.
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A recent randomized controlled trial published by the American Journal of Gastroenterology found that an 8-week, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course significantly reduced Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) symptoms. MBSR is a composite program which incorporates meditation, body scanning, and gentle yoga united under the common theme of mindfulness training.
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Friday, July 08, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Is Yoga Manly Enough for Men?
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While yoga is more commonly practiced than ever before, women still eclipse men at the rate of 76% to 24%, according to a 2008 survey. Many reasons have been theorized for the paucity of men in the yoga world; fewer male yoga instructors, a feminization of the practice as a whole—reflected on yoga magazine covers and in popular ads, a cultural belief that men are supposed to do “manly” forms of exercise (i.e. sports or weight-lifting), less easily activated mirror neurons, and limited flexibility among males compared to females following adolescence.
None of these trends or associations do much to attract males to the practice. And yet, there is a wealth of benefits for men who practice yoga.
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