By: Virginia Iversen, M.Ed and Faye Martins Teaching Yoga poses for anger management is very useful these days. As a certified Yoga teacher, you have the ability to facilitate deep transformational change in your students. This change can take the form of an overall increase in your students’ level of physical health, including greater strength, …
In “Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing,” author Timothy McCall, medical doctor and Yoga teacher, says that…
Outside of India, Yoga for men’s health is a new concept, but medical and scientific studies are breaking new ground with results, which…
Depending upon the advice of a doctor, Yoga techniques for HIV and AIDs are a viable option. Yoga has been used successfully to treat a…
We all look forward to Yoga in the movies. Enjoy these films and the many others available, including documentaries available from…
The following opinions about yoga props are my own. My purpose is not to stir up hostility, but to point out a line of thinking that…
By Gopi Rao and Faye Martins Let’s look at how to teach mindfulness meditation to reduce stress. Of course, Mindfulness meditation will teach you to help your clients or students cope with the daily challenges that create an atmosphere of stress. Moreover, stress is a part of life. Stress is pressure on the mind and …
Yoga therapy can help treat depression with side effects such as weight reduction, better sleep, and increased vitality. Many studies…
When you compare yoga to other types of physical activity, for example, surfing or rock climbing, it would seem yoga would be without incident. However, humans come in all shapes, sizes, and fitness levels. Many students who walk in your door may be recovering from illness or injury. Others may walk through in great physical shape, but harboring deep-seated emotional issues.
When an intern is immersed in a Yoga instructor training course, he or she begins to put pieces of knowledge together. Concepts like skeletal compression and how to decompress one’s back begin to seem obvious.