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yoga for osteoporosis - New York Times

Osteoporosis is a tremendous health concern for women over 50, causing more than 700,000 spinal fractures and more than 300,000 hip fractures each year in the United States alone. It is well known that weight-bearing exercise can help build bone mass, but little has been known about the benefits of yoga for osteoporosis.

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 womens health

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
The Many Benefits of Starting a Gratitude Practice

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 more

The Dirty Dozen: Top 12 Fruits and Veggies to Buy Organic

If you prefer organic foods, but are concerned about the added costs, check out the new organic shopping guide from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit environmental research organization in... Read more

Time for a Spring Cleanse? Top 15 Foods for Liver Detoxification

The liver is one of the most important organs in the body. It is one of the major organs of detoxification, filtering blood coming from the digestive tract and metabolizing and detoxifying toxic substances... Read more

Surya Little: Yoga for Women’s Health – Adapting Your Practice to the Cycles of Life

Surya Little is founder of Prajna Yoga with her husband, Tias Little, and she teaches yoga workshops and yoga teacher trainings both nationally and internationally. Surya’s yoga background includes many years... Read more
yoga for the face

Face Yoga for Younger-Looking Skin

Looking for a natural way to keep your face looking firm and vibrant? A new yoga trend is promising a youthful smile, without the potential harm and cost of procedures such as Botox or plastic surgery. Never heard of the “bumblebee” or “fish face” poses? Face yoga is a new technique that is gaining a lot of popularity with yoga studios like Smart Workout in New York, which offers weekly classes just for these precise facial exercises. Read more

How Exercise and Yoga Benefit Aging Brains

Mental exercise like doing cross words or playing card games can help to keep the brain young and prevent dementia, several studies say. However, it turns out that physical exercise may do more than mental... Read more

The Art of Forgiveness - Are You Holding Onto Feeling Wronged?

Forgiveness is a tricky topic. First, it has two distinct meanings - To give up resentment or anger - To pardon an offense; to stop seeking punishment or recompense Here, I am going to focus on the first... Read more

Menopause, Anxiety, and Yoga

My brain went wacky around 50. I have a loving husband and great kids, yet I was not enjoying my life. Menopause had bestowed on me one of its gifts—anxiety. The hamster on the wheel in my brain began running... Read more