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Feds Spend $160K to Study Yoga as Treatment for Schizophrenia
From CNSnews.com The federal government spent more than $160,000 to test yoga as a treatment for schizophrenia in New Delhi, India. The project, entitled “The Impact of Yoga Supplementation on Cognitive Function Among Indian Outpatients,” is being funded by the … Continue reading
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Compass Yoga Begins a Corporate Yoga and Meditation Program To Further Our Mission
Compass Yoga is working hard to get more yoga to more people in more places. We now teach well over 200 people per week in a dozen classes with a team of a dozen tremendously talented teachers. We’ve been applying … Continue reading
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Yoga and the Mind: Can Yoga Reduce Symptoms of Major Psychiatric Disorders?
From TIME Magazine Getty Images Yoga does the body good, and according to a new study, it may ease the mind as well. “Yoga has also become such a cultural phenomenon that it has become difficult for physicians and consumers … Continue reading
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Classroom Yoga Helps Improve Behavior Of Kids With Autism
By Eliza Barclay for NPR Yoga is increasingly being used in classrooms across the U.S. to help kids behave and perform better in school. Researchers have found that kids with autism spectrum disorder who did yoga at their elementary school … Continue reading
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Yoga Could Decrease Costs, Sick Days For People With Chronic Back Pain
From Huffington Post: People with chronic low back pain may want to try taking to the yoga mat to relieve their symptoms, a small new study suggests. Researchers from the University of York in the United Kingdom found that back … Continue reading
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Yoga Fixes From Head to Toes: Poses for 8 Common Conditions
From the Huffington Post: Scientific research into what medical conditions yoga can heal and how it does its work is blossoming. Last year the National Institutes of Health funded 30 clinical trials covering everything from yoga for back pain to … Continue reading
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Exercise May Ease Depression in Heart Failure Patients
From The New York Times: By ANAHAD O’CONNOR Getty Images For those with heart failure, exercise may help ease depression. Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Share Print Heart failure can take a heavy psychological toll, with many patients developing symptoms of … Continue reading
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Yoga may aid stroke recovery
Posted July 28, 2012, 10:05 am in Harvard Health Publications. by Reena Pande, M.D., Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School We tend to think of yoga as exercise for youthful, limber folks. A new study from Indianapolis suggests it may … Continue reading
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Upward-Facing Soldier
By LAUREN K. WALKER from The New York Times YOU are sitting behind the Humvee where you’ve dragged a wounded soldier. You’ve wrapped the gaping hole in his leg, given him a shot of morphine and radioed up the line … Continue reading
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Yoga Could Help Teens Ward Off Anxiety, Study Shows
From the Huffington Post Considering yoga’s stress-busting effects, one would think that high-schoolers might benefit from the practice. And now, a study shows that yoga does confer benefits to teens. The research is published in the Journal of Developmental and … Continue reading
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