Even though stress is constantly viewed in a negative manner, it does not always have to be detrimental. The stress of exhilarating, creative and successful work can be favourable depending on how an individual deals with it.

The first tool we will look at is something called a Stress Diary. that…

Pamela Newton wrote an scoop for the September 30 Huffington Post entitled Do Yoga, Get Rich?: High Rollers Are Hitting The Mat. She explains that “a surprising number of moguls and high rollers” now do yoga. Perhaps that isn’t news, but I thought her closing paragraph was interesting: “Perhaps you’…

I don’t know about you, but the news coming out of Wall Street makes me nervous. It’s not that I have so much at stake (certainly not like those financial titans with plummeting portfolios) but I expect to feel the stresses of the volatile markets as gas and food prices continue to go up, credit…

Speeding home in a cab last night I glimpsed the shiny, new, colorful Lululemon Athletica store in SoHo. I’ve been waiting for a while for a full downtown outlet of the upscale yoga/work-out duds store for a while. It looks sufficiently yogini-in-a-Lulustore fun. Like the other three shops, that loc…

A Massena, New York, high school is putting its classroom yoga program on hold after a group of parents raised concerns about the separation of church and state, saying that the school should not expose their kids to Hindu rituals, reports AM New York.

“‘We are not opposed to the benefits. We can …

I grew up in a family that was, at best, Jewish-lite. We held Passover seders while chomping on Italian bread and ordered Chinese food on Hannukah. But there were little nuggets of spiritual reflection tossed into my nontraditional and secular spiritual life. And as I go deeper into my yoga practice…

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A recent pilot study revealed that as little as 12 sessions of yoga significantly improved the conditions of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. A total of 47 patients were enrolled, of which 26 undertook yoga sessions, while 21 were on regular arthritis treatment. Some patients in the yoga group we…

With so many great natural products on the market — lotions, facial cleansers and soaps– I’m often disappointed by shampoos and conditioners that tout their chemical-free properties. At the risk of sounding like an infomercial, such products leave my hair feeling stripped, dry and the condition…

QiYoga is a blend of hatha yoga and qi gong that seems to be gaining popularity in the U.K. and Australia. It was created by Australian yogini Fiona Kaczmarczyk and it has been taught in the U.K. since 2004. Kaczmarczyk claims her QiYoga for Fertility program has a 100 percent success rate. For more…