In our Yoga Blog we will report on yoga news, trends and happenings throughout the world.
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Next time you head in for a check-up, don’t be surprised if your provider prescribes a course of mind-body therapy (MBT) to your adjunct care. A recent study found that nearly 1 in 30 (roughly 6.36 million) Americans are physician-referred to MBT, a category encompassing yoga, tai chi, qi gong, deep breathing, meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, and guided imagery. And if you’re already practicing some form of mind-body therapy, count yourself among the 34.8 million Americans who are self-referred. The survey suggests that roughly 18.4% of the US population practices some form of MBT.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Yoga and Surfing
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The ability of yoga’s breathing, meditation, and asana practices to help calm the mind and increase focus, stamina, flexibility, and strength has helped make practicing yoga a popular cross-training exercise for many types of physical activities. Over the last couple of years, the surfing community has begun to buzz about the ways in which a consistent yoga practice can improve your surfing, and perhaps it’s time for the yoga community to buzz back.
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Monday, May 09, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga for Weight Loss?
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Yoga for weight loss: it’s the latest fad on the American yoga scene, where we’ve grown accustomed to such diverse offerings as yoga paired with chocolate, wine, and even pets. Several studios are now cashing in on the American preoccupation with weight loss, offering series, classes and competitions to help students drop the pounds.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Yogis Turn to Violence?
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One of the most basic principles of yoga is ahimsa, do no harm. Ahimsa is the practice of non-violence, in word, thought, and action and is the first of the yamas, or disciplines, of yogic philosophy. While it may seem to be a simple concept, it can be a challenging and important practice to establish and maintain on a daily basis.
Many people who practice yoga already try to cultivate a lifestyle of ahimsa, but even in the yoga community, we are imperfect. Last July, one yoga teacher murdered another for unknown reasons, and in March, an employee of a yoga clothing store murdered her co-worker in what appears to be a dispute over stolen merchandise.
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Monday, April 25, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga Gives Hope for Cancer Patients
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Several recently published medical studies are giving hope for using yoga as a therapy for people suffering and recovering from cancer. The new studies show the effectiveness of various types of yoga in improving quality of life, emotional well-being, fatigue and stress for cancer patients and breast cancer survivors.
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Monday, April 11, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Yoga Calms Irregular Heartbeats
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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Laughter Yoga Helps Your Heart
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Laughter and humor have been correlated to beneficial health outcomes, and research tells us the benefits of yoga are no less impactful. Both laughter and yoga have independently been shown to improve outcomes associated with heart disease. It is perhaps little surprise that preliminary results of a 3-armed study presented at the American Heart Association’s conference last weekend found laughter yoga to improve parameters of blood pressure and cortisol, compared to a control group.
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Friday, April 01, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Building a Home Yoga Practice
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Starting or strengthening a home practice can be a great way to maintain and even deepen your yoga practice. It’s also a great option if you struggle to fit classes in to your schedule, or want to practice more often than is financially realistic. One great thing about a home-based practice is that it can be whatever you need it to be. It can start and end at any time, target your mood and physical needs, and utilize any genre or volume of music that moves you in the moment.
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The debate for regulation of yoga teacher training (YTT) programs continues. In Austin, Texas, a contingency of yoga studio owners and practitioners, represented by the Texas Yoga Association (TYA), staged a yoga demonstration recently to support legislation excluding yoga teacher training programs from regulation efforts headed by the Texas Workforce Commission. Supporting the TYC in their anti-regulatory efforts was John Matthews, president of Yoga Alliance.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by Amber Baker
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Yoga for Inner City Peace
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Growing up can be hard to do no matter where you live, but for children living in urban areas with high crime and poverty rates it can be down right stressful. These kids learn from an early age to remain ever alert, always ready to fight or flee. This type of stress can lead to decreased cognitive skills, depression, an inability to concentrate, and a host of emotional and behavioral issues. Not to mention the effects of long-term stress on the body. Yet, thanks to a growing awareness of the many health benefits of yoga, a nonprofit organization, and a team of dedicated scientists, some of these kids are learning how to find an oasis of peace within themselves.
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Friday, March 11, 2011 by Tosca Braun
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The Army Starts to Om
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As part of an overhaul to Army physical fitness training, yoga is being incorporated into new training protocols intended to minimize injury and optimize physical performance, endurance, and recovery time among trainees and soldiers. This is partially in response to research indicating the limited utility and detrimental health effects of pushing soldiers to the max in training and the field without affording adequate recovery or conditioning.
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Tuesday, March 08, 2011 by
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Yoga with the Boss
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Yoga just might be the new way to get a leg up on the corporate ladder as office yogis and yoginis are finding it’s an activity that they can share with higher ups. In fact, yoga is being touted as the “New Golf.”
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Monday, February 21, 2011 by Timothy Burgin
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Are Yoga Teachers' Egos Getting Too Big?
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A mat-packed yoga class will often give a yoga teacher a natural boost to their self-esteem, self-worth, and ego. In excess, this ego boost can create celebrity-minded instructors with “the aura of high priest,” according to Casey Schwartz. But Casey does not put all the yoga-star fame blame on the instructors. She writes, “Becoming a yoga teacher allows an insecure person to act spiritually superior. But the dynamic is two-sided. For the yoga teacher to become inflated, the student must inflate.” Not only are yoga instructor’s egos becoming over-inflated, but their students are becoming more like rock-band groupies than detached seekers of truth. This in turn fuels the egotistical nature of their teachers, and thus drives this ego-driven process to repeat over and over.
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