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Yoga For Weight Reduction
Does Yoga help in weight management? Most definitely. There are a number of factors involved. Firstly, some of the asanas stimulate sluggish glands to increase their hormonal secretions. The thyroid gland, especially, has a big effect on our weight because it affects...
Yoga and Weight Loss
With the onward march of civilization, human beings, with a zealous passion, have aimed at improving their way of life. A harmonious blend of curiosity, intelligence and zest to find solutions to the challenges faced, has enabled us to ameliorate and improve living...
Yoga and Sciatica
Sciatica is a painful condition characterized by symptoms ranging from sharp pain through the lower spine, a stabbing sensation in the buttock, to knee or ankle pain, or even numbness or burning in the leg. Sciatic pain is common in individuals with lower back...
Yoga for Swine Flu
There seems to be no end in sight to mass, (media-led) hysteria surrounding swine flu. So it's not our intention, in any way, to add to the atmosphere of panic already circulating.However, yogis may be interested in a couple of stories last week about ... you guessed...
Yoga and Parkinson’s: A Report from the Inside
In the last several months, I’ve discovered Yoga and have added it to my repertoire in managing the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. I’ve been blessed to experience a reduction in back, shoulder and neck pain as a result of the Yoga stretches. I am a Yoga newbie and...
Why Yoga Can Be Helpful to Those Living with Parkinson’s Disorder
Controlled experiments on the use of Yoga with Parkinson’s Disorder, although so far small, have shown highly statistically significant positive results. The following observations are distilled from my own experience with the effects of Parkinson’s and Yoga on my...
Considering Yoga as A Parkinson’s Disease Exercise
Seventeen years ago when Paul Zeiger began teaching Yoga, he could not forsee that it would help him live better with Parkinson's disease. Now that Parkinson's disease is a constant in his life, Yoga provides him with a source of both physical and mental strength and...
Yoga and Menopause: An Interview with Suza Francina
The author of Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause answers questions on the subject. Q: What motivated you to write a book on Yoga and menopause?For the past thirty years my classes have been filled with women who began Yoga during menopause. Many of my early teachers...
Yoga and Menopause
A woman’s life cycle is divided into three stages during which her identity changes on the basis of the physical transformations that take place in her reproductive system. These 3 identities of a woman are – “Young Woman”, “Mother” and “Wise Woman”.The ‘young woman’...
The Heart of Healing
I am honored to pay tribute to Sri Swami Satchidananda (Gurudev), an extraordinary spiritual teacher who we have had the blessing of knowing. I want to talk a little bit about the work that my colleagues and I have been doing as a manifestation of the vision that I...
Yoga for the Special Child: The Sonia Sumar Method
Yoga for the Special Child® training programs offer a unique learning environment for children and their parents, special education teachers, Yoga teachers, and health care professionals. Courses are taught by internationally renowned Yoga therapist and author Sonia...
Yoga Therapy Research: Why Do We Need It?
Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD, is one of the leaders in Yoga therapy research. He was drawn to approaching Yoga as a physiological practice because he believed that providing the science behind the practice would help Yoga to penetrate the mainstream. In this interview he talks...
Yoga Therapy Research: West Meets East
Timothy McCall, M.D. is the author of Yoga as Medicine and an editor of Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care. During an Integral Yoga Teachers’ Conference, Dr. McCall shared the results of his exploration of Yoga research in India. Here is an excerpt of what...
Yoga Alliance: Yoga’s Professional Organization
Yoga Alliance® was founded in 1999 and it is now the biggest international nonprofit association in the Yoga community, serving a diverse community. Integral Yoga is honored to be a founding member of Yoga Alliance—the largest registry of Yoga teachers and schools in...
How I Became A Full Time Yoga Teacher
When I made the jump to full time Yoga teacher I was in India standing on the balcony of a concrete building overlooking the Ganges River. I hadn’t slept for nights but I had watched several magnificent sunrises from the roof of this same building. At that time I...
Find a Yoga Teacher Training program
For over forty years, Integral Yoga® has been serving the Yoga community with our world-renowned Yoga Teacher Training programs. These programs are led by the best instructors from our lineage, giving you the foundation you need to teach and practice Yoga with...
Higher Education, Medical Yoga, and the Legacy of Integral Yoga
In this interview, Dr. Mala Cunningham discusses the growing field of Medical Yoga and the new, groundbreaking course she’s developed for the University of Virginia: “Foundations of Medical Yoga for Health Professionals.” Integral Yoga Magazine: Integral Yoga has a...
Accessible Yoga
The Integral Yoga ® Institute of San Francisco launched a pilot program in October 2007 that has now grown into a global movement: Accessible Yoga Teacher Training. Initially founded for people with physical challenges who want to become Yoga teachers, this inspiring...
Yoga At School ™
Chandra Jo Sgammato, the founder of the Yoga at School™ program developed by the Integral Yoga Institute of New York, shares the vision for the program and how it developed. Teaching Yoga to schoolchildren was not new for the New York Integral Yoga Institute. In 2001,...
The Yoga Ed Program
A teacher, producer, and philanthropist, Tara Guber is the founder and CEO of the nationally recognized Yoga in schools program, Yoga Ed.™ Originally motivated to try Yoga by her movie producer husband, Peter Guber (Mandalay Entertainment), Tara has now been...
Yoga in the Public Schools?
In 2004 Allison Slade became the cofounder and principle of Namaste, a charter school in inner city Chicago that she designed to meet the needs of low-income, high crime neighborhoods. This school takes a holistic approach to education with a focus on the physical,...
Yoga in the Public Schools?
In 2004 Allison Slade became the cofounder and principle of Namaste, a charter school in inner city Chicago that she designed to meet the needs of low-income, high crime neighborhoods. This school takes a holistic approach to education with a focus on the physical,...
Yoga Calm®
Yoga Calm, developed by Lynea Gillen, MS and Jim Gillen, RYT, is an innovative child education method that reduces stress and then engages both body and mind for optimum learning. It helps children develop emotional intelligence, communication skills, trust and...
YogaKids Tools for Schools
YogaKids International, the premier Yoga program for children, has developed the Tools for Schools program to bring the age-old practice of Yoga into the modern-day classroom. The YogaKids Tools for Schools program allows K-5 students to encounter Yoga and its many...
Consciousness-based Education: Transcendental Meditation in Schools
The Transcendental Meditation program is a powerful and innovative new educational tool for systematically dissolving stress and developing the inner potential of students and teachers. Transcendental Meditation has been successfully implemented in public and private...