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Knee woes? Begone!
Do you suffer from the fruits of your glory days as a sports person? Or maybe you got into an automobile accident which left your knees in a wreck. Perhaps you wore away your meniscus from dancing too many nights…
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Yoga for Eating Disorders
Those suffering from eating disorders, often have a disconnection between their mind and body. They want to abandon their physical bodies and take up less space; to get smaller and smaller. Very often, eating disorders are a way for people…
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Healing Emotional Wounds
In yoga, the hips do more than help us stand and move; they store lots of our emotional baggage. Loosen the hips up through a series of physical postures, and you might feel an inexplicable urge to weep. When it…
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Street Yoga
I chanced upon Street Yoga about a year ago when I started reading about how Yoga had a transformative ability on people. When I read about them, it got me started on a headfirst dive into the world of…
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Sinusitis no more!
Are you a sufferer or the unpronounceable ‘N’, a contribution to the tissue paper massacre, or just tired of feeling like someone stuffed a soggy sock into your nose and left it there to block your air and drip yucky…
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PTSD: Bridging the Mind and Body
As psychiatrist and trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk explains, trauma is stored in every cell of the body, and must be safely released by the body. What we sense as emotions are essentially an interplay of chemical reactions in our…
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PTSD: How can yoga help?
In March 2010, I had gone to Cambodia to attend a short workshop by Hart Lazer, on using Yoga to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. As part of his Karma Projects, Hart travels to Cambodia twice a year…
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Yoga heals from A – (well… almost) Z
So you’ve heard. Yoga is this 5000 year old miracle that everyone is talking about. You read it in the papers, you watch it on the television, you have heard it from your father/mother/brother/sister/son/daughter/aunty/uncle/boss/colleague/dog/cat and even plant, your doctor recommends…
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La-HAHAHA-ghter Yoga
“Laughter in laughter clubs is the purest laughter because it is not for any reason. It is not directed at others but we learn to laugh at ourselves.”
-Madan Kataria, founder of Hasya (Laughter) Yoga
According to Madan Kataria, an…
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What to do when Cancer strikes?
Sitting in the hospital these few days, watching my grandmother drift in and out of sleep, I can only wonder how yoga can help someone in the 4th stage of Cancer. It wasn’t a case of us having known and…
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Can Yoga relieve my back pain?
Now that the heat from Bikram yoga has somewhat sizzled off, Yoga therapy seems to be the next big thing to hit the studios. But just how effective is yoga in treating chronic back pain?
In a…
