Epilepsy Awareness Day, or Purple Day, is celebrated annually on March 26 to increase the public’s understanding of this brain disorder and to eliminate the fear and stigma surrounding it. Epilepsy is defined as a tendency to have repeated seizures that originate in the brain. The seizures occur due to a temporary interruption of brain activity, causing disturbance of … [Read more...]
Kundali Yoga to Fight Stress
It is true that positive stressors can be good for us and good for our nervous system. It is only when the stress is too extreme, too prolonged, inappropriate to the challenge or accompanied by strong negative emotions like fear that the stress load gets unmanageable. In Sanskrit the word kundalini means life force. Literally translated the word kundalini actually … [Read more...]
Yoga to Manage Arthritis Pain
Yoga can help relieve both the pain and psychological distress suffered by patients with arthritis, according to a research. Patients with osteoarthritis and those with rheumatoid arthritis both frequently see benefits from the activity, it found. The US research, published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, involved a review of nine … [Read more...]
Chest Opening Yogasanas
If you are trying to give up smoking and nicotine consumption there is no doubt that chest opening yoga exercises can go a long way to support your effort. Besides, opening the chest helps to tone the spine and increase the breathing capacity of the lungs. It relieves tightness in the back and shoulders. By lifting your heart, moving your shoulders back and lengthening the … [Read more...]
Sitali and Sitkari: Two Cooling Pranayamas
There are two cooling pranayama practices that can soothe you in the time of heat & sweat. Of coure, you can eat a slice of watermelon or take a dip in the pool, but yoga can also help your body beat the summer heat (and your mind chill out) with these practices. Sitali or Serpent Breath In Sanskrit, the word sitali means "cooling," and this breath has an immediate … [Read more...]
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