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5 Ways Yoga Enhances Heart Health
February is all about pink and red hearts, roses, chocolate, and cupids. It’s also the month the American Heart Association (AHA) dedicates to heart health education. While you’ve probably heard that eating a... Read more
Yoga for Heart Health: Research Shows Yoga May Help Atrial Fibrillation
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about yoga and atrial fibrillation, inspired by both a personal experience with a student who had an acute bout of rapid heart rate due to “A fib” during a yoga workshop in... Read more
5 Yoga Poses for Your Heart
Yoga is known for improving flexibility and balance. But did you know that a well-rounded practice of yoga poses for your heart is an effective tool for maintaining cardiovascular health? Active yoga poses... Read moreFeatured Courses
While millions of Americans suffer from pain in the low back and pelvis, many back and hip issues are actually the result of sacroiliac instability (SI), i.e. an imbalance in the sacroiliac joint, which often goes undiagnosed or is improperly treated. Alarmingly, yoga practitioners appear to...Read more
Hip openers are among the most satisfying and powerful yoga poses. They hold a tremendous potential for transformation; they can help us release deep-seated tension and trauma of the past, which many of us hold locked in the hip area. When practiced correctly, hip openers are a great way to soothe...Read more
Yoga is more popular than ever, but as yoga has become a household word, has it also become a mile wide and an inch deep? Are we missing out on the essence of yoga, even as the practice has become a household word? What can we do to capture the deepest aspects of yoga and integrate these into our...Read more
Most people know the importance of core strengthening for health and long-term well-being, but the pelvic floor is an important group of core muscles, which tend to get ignored. “The torso is like a tote bag for your organs,” says Leslie Howard, a Bay area yoga teacher who conducts workshops...Read more
A Quick Test of Heart Disease Risk: Can You Touch Your Toes?
Here’s a new twist (pun intended) on what stretching does for your body: New research indicates that flexibility in the body may be related to flexibility of the arteries, and that your ability (or inability) to touch your toes may be a measure of your risk for heart disease. Read more
Early Heart Disease Prevention Key to Successful Aging
There are many good reasons to prevent heart disease other than just to live longer. Heart disease isn’t just a leading killer, it also causes disability, limiting mobility and negatively impacting quality of life as we get older. Read more
Profile: Dr. Dean Ornish - Pioneering Yoga as Lifestyle Therapy
Dr. Dean Ornish is a pioneer in research on the benefits of lifestyle medicine in general and the use of yoga as therapy for chronic disease more specifically. Read more
Profile: Yoga for MS a "Small" Task
At more than 79 years-old, MS sufferer Eric Small credits the fact that he is still mobile and healthy to the face that he has practiced yoga for MS for more than 50 years. Read more
Why Yoga for MS?
Doctors emphasize the importance of physical activity for people diagnosed with MS, and yoga for MS shows promise as an excellent technique for managing symptoms of MS. Read more
Getting the Most out of Yoga for MS
If looking for a yoga for MS class, the ideal, of course is to find an instructor who is familiar with teaching people with MS. But short of that, there are several other yoga therapy options available for MS sufferers. Read more