Archive for the 'Yoga News' Category

Beating Addiction Through Yoga

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Aaron Hunsaker is a yoga instructor at Centered City Yoga in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hunsaker and Centered City Yoga are opening a new studio and are welcoming a different type of yoga practitioner: those trying to get off of drugs.
Hunsaker has a first hand experience of how difficult it is to get off of, [...]

Facial Yoga?

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Facial Yoga is a fairly new type of yoga. It has all of the elements of regular yoga: the practitioner is asked to relax and tries to tone the muscles through specific poses, but it focuses wholly on the face!
Annelise Hagen, a facial yoga instructor, believes that facial yoga is the answer to eliminating facial [...]

The Value of Yoga At Home

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Some people don’t have the ability to carve out the time to attend a yoga class, and others are uncomfortable going to a class full of strangers. The new Livingroom Yoga DVD is the perfect thing for those people.
This fifty minute workout focuses on the basic, tried and true moves. Creator Eva Barash said “I [...]

Yoga Yoga Everywhere!

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Yoga experts will tell you that you don’t have to have special yoga attire in order to practice yoga. They will say that all you need is comfortable clothing and a comfortable space.
Many, however, do wear “yoga clothes”, which generally consists of tight tank tops and pants that flow but stop before the ankle, so [...]

Joining the Yoga Forces!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

These days it seems as if everyone is doing their part to help soldiers. One yoga chain in Arizona is doing its part to honor those in the military services. Dahn Yoga will be providing free workshops at six different locations all day on November 3, as a way to honor the military personnel and [...]

The Yoga ADHD Connection

Friday, October 26th, 2007

A question has been raised recently as to whether regular yoga and meditation sessions can help children that suffer with ADHD. Dr. Joyce Brothers seems to think so.
In a recent question and answer column, Dr. Brothers stated that children are being overrun with an increasing amount of stimuli as time goes on. “Studies suggest that [...]

Been Evacuated? Try Some Yoga!

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Everyone remembers what a horror it looked like for the evacuees in New Orleans that took shelter in the Superdome. The Qualcomm Stadium, located in San Diego, is nothing like the Superdome.
Over 10,000 California wildfire evacuees are residing in the Qualcomm, and the city officials are doing everything they can to make the displaced residents [...]

Fit and Famous

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

There is a huge list of celebrities that are rumored to practice yoga. Some of these celebrities have admitted that they enjoy the exercise while others have been caught practicing in public.
The list includes people like Meg Ryan, Ricky Martin, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Shirley MacLaine and Nicholas Cage. But why do celebrities choose yoga as [...]

Swami Ramdev on Sex Education

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

One of Yoga’s more outspoken gurus, Swami Ramdev, has made a controversial statement once more. You may remember that Swami Ramdev has been under fire before for claiming that some types of Yoga can cure cancer. He held a press conference this past Sunday stating that sexual education in schools are responsible for leading children [...]

Joining the Yoga Fight Against Breast Cancer Complications

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Beating breast cancer is a miraculous thing, but often the problems for the patient do not go away when the cancer is in remission. Many women who have breast cancer surgery have problems with anxiety, pain in their side and arm, and fatigue.
Dr. Geraldine Jacobson, a professor at the University of Iowa, believes that yoga [...]