Yog-Nidra Yog-Nidra, one of the ancient yogic meditations is much recommended by yoga teachers and psychologists for physical, mental and emotional well-being of people leading a stressful life, a new study has revealed. Yog-Nidra is the best known technique for complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation, says the study by Haridwar-based Dev Sanskriti University. Yoga [...]

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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 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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acharya on December 16th, 2008

Yoga could be of immense help to women going through severe menopausal symptoms, as it appears to improve mental functioning, while reducing night sweats and hot flashes, suggests Indian researchers. To investigate this fact, about 120 women of the age group 44 to 55 years, with physical and cognitive symptoms of menopause, were randomly assigned [...]

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Recent studies have discovered that yoga practice could increase brain substances, which if otherwise low, could lead to anxiety and depression. At the moment, pharmaceutical treatment boosts the level of neurotransmitters known as gamma-aminobutyric (GABA), the lack of which is considered to be the cause behind anxiety and depression. Research was conducted to find out [...]

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Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic, neurological disease, which is often unpredictable and affects the central nervous system. Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) could have trouble in balancing, limbs weakening, falling asleep, difficulty in walking and anxiety. Sue Peterson, 56, was diagnosed with a case of progressive MS and hence could not join a regular yoga [...]

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Swami Yoganad, a leading yoga master and the founder of Transformational Yoga(a new yogic system that creates techniques of hatha, tantra, mantra, raja, ashtanga and kundalini yoga to bring about a rapid transformation in the practitioner), has asserted that though yoga may not be able to cure cancer completely, it will surely help eliminate cancer [...]

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