It’s a peculiarity of western culture that yoga is practiced primarily by women. Here, it’s often thought that men do sports and women do things like yoga and stretching. Ironically, many men have reported that their first yoga class has often ‘kicked their ass’ and that it requires a lot more strength than they imagined. In its origin countries, yoga …
Stress Relief With Yoga
One of the most meaningful benefits of yoga for your emotional or mental wellbeing is the ability of yoga to relieve stress and help you achieve a steadier and clearer frame of mind. Stress is an insidious problem for humans; we live with it so much that we don’t even notice its impact until it’s too late. Stress has been …
Can Yoga Help You Deal With Digestion Problems?
For many students, the most common uses for yoga are improved flexibility, core strength and stability and improved endurance. However, there are several yoga poses which can help with other issues, including minor digestive problems. If you suffer from constipation, bloating, diarrhoea, indigestion and irritable bowel syndrome (to name a few common problems) you may find that several common …
How To Choose A Good Yoga Instructor
In the old days of yoga, an instructor in yoga would train a student one-on-one, and then the student would go on to train someone else, and so on. Things have certainly changed. It’s not always affordable or convenient to take private lessons, so most of us drop into a class when we can. This can be problematic because the …
The Cupping Method to Detox and Remove Cold Symptoms
When you think of ‘cupping’, you probably think of holding something. In this case though, cupping is an ancient Chinese method of detoxification which also carries benefits like getting rid of cold symptoms, relieving aches and pains, and helping you to feel more energized. It is completely non-invasive, easy, and very relaxing and can be done right alongside acupuncture for …
Take Time for Taking Child’s Pose
Why does a time as sparkling and exciting as the holidays have to be so stressful? Our bodies are still dealing with a season’s windy change and now we have planning, baking, traveling and partying to do. It’s a joyous time, sure. But it’s a time of headaches too. I’ve already found myself in child’s pose several times in each …
The French Know How to Motivate
The French do a whole lot of things right. Bread, cheese, shoes, and films to name a few. They also know how motivate people. Or so it seems from this ad for Contrex, a bottled mineral water. I mean, look at those women go. I don’t usually get quite that excited about my workout. But then, I’ve never had the …
What is Acupuncture and How Can It Help Me?
For a long time, it was hard to sort out the good acupuncture from the bad acupuncture and the media was largely to blame. Fortunately, a public push in more knowledge about healing methods which go beyond the western frame of reference has resulted in acupuncture becoming not only accepted, but widespread. However, you may only think of acupuncture as …
Introducing Unlimited and Group Acupuncture
Acupuncture has been an important practice for healing and maintaining good health for thousands of years. Scientific studies to determine exactly how acupuncture works are ongoing and becoming more common. Recently, The Royal College of General Practitioners reported that two studies in the British Journal of General Practice have shown that patients, “perceived a wide range of positive effects and …
Using Acupuncture for Stress Relief
Pain relief and acupuncture are known to go hand in hand, but stress relief closely follows in the list of benefits with acupuncture. Acupuncture is often used as a means of stress relief because it is painless, relaxing and alleviates many other symptoms of stress including things like headaches, backaches and neck pain. But how does acupuncture-an alternative and physical …
Medicine For The Heart
The Center for Disease Control reports that every year 785,000 Americans have their first heart attack. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in our country. In yoga, we learn that both the physical and the spiritual heart respond to the practice of opening. But what else can we do to keep our hearts safe and healthy? At The …