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Free Yoga Video: Pelvic Floor Tuneup - Two Yoga Techniques to Deepen Your Breath
Breathing has many benefits. For one, it keeps you alive! In addition to circulating oxygen to all parts of the body, however, deep, diaphragmatic breathing has numerous other important benefits. It helps... Read more
Yoga for Pelvic Floor Disorders - New Studies Suggest Yoga Can Help Prevent Incontinence
Pelvic floor disorders are surprisingly common. After the age of 55, issues like incontinence, prolapse and pelvic pain become increasingly prevalent and by age 80, one out of two women will have experienced... Read more
How to Start a Daily Gratitude Practice - 6 Useful Tips
Want to sleep better, enjoy more fulfilling relationships, experience more positive emotions, greater life satisfaction, and lower levels of depression and stress? Introduce a daily gratitude practice... 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
Holiday Stress? Strike a Yoga Pose
The holiday season is here. It’s time for snowy fun, overstuffed meals, and eccentric aunts and uncles… for extra-long shopping lists and bigger pant-sizes. It’s a time of sharing and of gratitude for your friends and family. Snow flurries dance through the trees, and the crisp, arid breeze pierces your nostrils whenever you step outside, but all of this excitement might be bringing you a present you didn’t ask for—a heaping helping of holiday stress . Read more
Are Mammograms Always a Good Choice?
A new study found that mammograms have led to false cancer diagnoses and unnecessary treatment for more than a million women in the last decade. An article in the Washington Post cited the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine November 21. According to the study, nearly a third of the women treated for breast cancer in the last decade would not have developed the disease if left untreated. Read more
How to Stay Positive (Even When You’re Struggling With Depression)
“Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall behind you.” ~ Māori Proverb Depressing, isn’t it? Struggling to get out of bed every day—but you can’t. All you need to do is turn off your alarm, get... Read more
Yes is a World - Change Your Narrative, Change Your Future
“If a universe can be imagined, it exists.” ~ Professor M. R. Franks “There are hundreds of different radio waves being broadcast all around you from distant stations. At any given instant, your office or car... Read more
The Estrogen-Breast Cancer Link: What You Can Do to Lower the Risk
Proving that breast cancer is linked to estrogen is not difficult. If a woman has her ovaries removed at a very young age, and does not receive estrogen replacement, her risk of breast cancer decreases profoundly. Read more
Surviving the Holiday Feasts: A Yogi’s Guide to Mindful Eating
Had Ben Franklin lived today, he would likely have added a third item to his list of life’s inescapable certainties: January’s barrage of weight loss articles and dieting advice surely is as certain as death... Read more