acharya on November 14th, 2011

Yoga can help women in dealing with three most important phases of their life – menstruation, maternity and menopause. Yoga asansas and pranayama are helpful in dealing with these three phases, say yoga experts. Menstruation Women go through this phase between puberty and menopause. To ensure a healthy menstrual cycle, proper functioning of ovaries is [...]

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acharya on November 8th, 2011

Regular practice of yoga helps in preventing and managing cardiovascular diseases, revealed a recent clinical study by JIPMER (Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research) in India. Yoga controls essential hypertension The study team, led by Dr. Madanmohan Trakroo, demonstrated that through regular practice of yoga, patients with essential hypertension noticed significant decrease [...]

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acharya on February 17th, 2011

People suffering from insomnia know what it is like, to spend endless nights with little or no sleep. Apart from feeling tired and cranky through the day, with little or no energy left, insomnia also brings in series of ailments disrupting the entire body system. Alternative healing offers several remedies, with little or no side [...]

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acharya on January 3rd, 2011

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a body disorder, causing great muscular skeletal pain and fatigue, affection nearly about 2million adults in Britain, and several millions globally. Therefore, it is time to get your body moving again by combining easy stretches and relaxation techniques alongside your standard treatment, for effective relief, reports express.co.uk. According to the study carried [...]

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acharya on December 15th, 2010

It is a known fact that yoga imparts more energy, strength and flexibility. Several people turn to yoga for stress reduction, and then decide to adhere to it, as it makes them, feel, look, and remain young, agrees Larry Payne, Ph.D, a yoga Director at Loyola Marymount University, and co-author of Yoga Rx. Unlike in [...]

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According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), yoga may be superior to other forms of exercise, with regard to its positive effect on mood and anxiety. The findings are the first to indicate a link between yoga postures with increased Brain Gamma-Amniobutyric (GABA) levels and decreased anxiety. The researchers compared the GABA [...]

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acharya on October 12th, 2010

Yoga is the best-suited alternative form of healing available to thyroid patients, which can be of great help even to people suffering from thyroid cancer. Regular practice of few yoga asanas can help in boosting the functioning of thyroid gland, making lungs healthy and strengthening the back muscles. These asanas, when practiced regularly can help [...]

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acharya on May 21st, 2010

Constipation is the result of malfunctioning of digestive system. There are several reasons attributed to constipation, the main ones being wrong eating habits and unhealthy sleep patterns, and emotional stress. These tend to disrupt the free flow of ‘prana’ (Sanskrit word for ‘vital life’) in the body. As this flow gets disrupted, prana gets accumulated [...]

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