There are many techniques to improve and isolate yoga forward bends so they generate a holistic expansion all through the back lines of the body. A simple technique that you can add to some of your forward bends is what I shout a hollow lock.
A hollow lock has a similar feeling as uddiyani bandha (…

Most men think themselves stronger than women. When it comes to heart health, though, women have a slight edge. Being a male per se is a risk factor. Studies show that the male of our species have a greater risk of heart attack than women do, and they suffer attacks earlier in life.

Age, specific…

Creating a body detox plan is not as difficult as it seems in fact it can be fairly easy to create one that works for you. The first thing you need to do when creating a body detox plan is a bit of research. There are a number of things that are going to be a part of a body detox plan and you are go…

Many individuals successfully use Zen meditation on an everyday or frequent basis to achieve the wonder of separating their conscious minds from their physical bodies in order to achieve a sense of understanding with the world that surrounds them. Zen meditation techniques are really just an extens…

Dispassion. It’s a word we’d been hearing for days now, and, at the slightest mention, made some of us cringe….Original post by Kreg Weiss

Here’s another addition to the list of favourable effects of Acupuncture. A new study has suggested that Acupuncture helps in easing out chronic headaches in public.
The study, which is the largest till moment on the use of acupuncture to ease headaches, has a conflicting body of evidence. Whi…

Regular coffee drinkers are less likely to develop diabetes, propose a study from University of Minnesota.
The researchers who compared notes of more than 28000 post-menopausal women, noticed that those who consumed 2 to 3 cups of coffee per day, through most of their lives, were 22 percent at lower…

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 …