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Regular yoga practice may help stave off that dreaded middle-age spread, U.S. researchers report in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
They found that normal- weight people who did yoga regularly gained less weight over 10 years, regardless of their diet and other physical activity. And overweight yoginis (and yogis) even dropped a few pounds.
It all came down to mindful eating.
Read more »"Oh, my aching back!" may be heard less frequently as people with chronic lower back pain find some relief from a therapeutic form of yoga, a new study suggests.
Yoga is often promoted as a way to ease lower back pain and other chronic body aches, but there have been few rigorously conducted studies on the subject.
For the current study, published in the journal Spine, researchers randomly assigned 90 adults (average age 48, range 18-70) with chronic lower back pain to either stay with conventional care or take six months of Iyengar-style yoga classes.
Read more »If your gym’s yoga classes are packed, or if you hope to cultivate a daily practice at home, Yoga for Wii might be your best ticket to Nirvana this coming winter.No doubt, some yoga purists will be driven mad by Yoga for Wii’s distinctly Western a la carte approach to an ancient spiritual tradition. That’s because Yoga for Wii (www.yoga-game.com/) touches on multiple disciplines at the same time. It also includes tidbits of advice about eating right, the care and feeding of one’s chakras, and postures crafted to relieve back pain, arthritis, and headaches.
Read more »Richmonders, especially those in the Jackson Ward area, can now experience yoga and art in one unique visit to Like Water. The new yoga studio also serves as an art gallery which features the artwork of Jason Roane (co-owner). Yoga, Pilates and Dance classes are taught by Briana Young-Roane (co-owner). Click here for Like Water's schedule.
Read more »With the current economic climate, businesses are doing what they can to stay afloat. That has led a new yoga studio in Waldo to find a creative way to drum up business.
Caren Lisondra knew that opening a yoga studio during a recession would be risky.
"The space found me," Lisondra said. "I looked on craigslist and found what was available and this studio came up. I came to visit and everything fell into place."
