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Teaching Yoga for Cancer Patients

The beginning lessons may be difficult for some cancer patients, particularly if their body has succumbed to the illness greatly, but the benefits of yoga are worth the initial rough start. The deep breathing exercises are also an important aspect of teaching yoga to cancer patients. As time progresses, patients will find that regular yoga exercises help them cleanse their bodies and to give them a sense of comfort and ease, washing away their anxieties and worries.

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Heart Health – Can Yoga Help?

Using therapeutic yoga poses involves primarily those that open the chest and shoulders. These poses are usually those that are standing or bending, and they should be held for extended periods of time with slow, deep breathing to allow for more oxygen intake. Standing and bending poses also help tone cardiac muscle. The mountain pose, the tree pose, and the cat stretch pose can be used therapeutically to greatly benefit circulation and help to prevent the onset or further development of heart disease.

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Yoga For Diabetes: What the Research Says

The author of a 2007 meta-analysis published in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India and conducted at Osmania Medical College reported on the results of “well designed studies” that explored the role of yoga in diabetics and compared the results obtained from people without the disease. Overall, the findings confirmed the claim that yoga is useful in controlling diabetes because patients who practiced it experienced a significant decline in blood glucose levels and maintained a healthy glycemic status for prolonged periods. Patients also showed a decline in percentage of body fat, a reduction in acute complications and an improvement in insulin sensitivity.

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Yoga for Bone Density

Practicing yoga for bone density is one more way to take care of skeletal health. Making yoga a part of your daily routine is a simple and…

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How to Stop Numbness Through Yoga

Through Yoga poses – such as neck stretches, chin tucks, pelvic tilts, and back stretches – help to reduce numbness and restore the…

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Eliminate Back Pain with Yoga Poses

Eliminating back pain is one of the greatest reasons why people choose to practice Hatha Yoga. Yoga can truly serve as a therapeutic exercise in relieving tension and stress from the back muscles. There are all sorts of Yoga poses that one can learn, which will help eliminate or reduce back pain. Before practicing Yoga poses, new students should seek professional guidance, do diligent research, and perform a proper warm-up before practicing the following postures.

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Can Yoga Help Cancer Treatment?

As many of you have learned in Yoga instructor training, there are many different styles. One sub-style of Hatha is Restorative Yoga. This particular therapeutic style is often recommended for people who are undergoing chemotherapy.

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Yoga for Osteoporosis

For anyone with a pre-existing condition, a slow pace in a gentle Yoga class are the way to go. Yoga for osteoporosis is a viable…

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Yoga, Health and Menopause

Unlike so many other forms of exercise, Yoga is not demanding or competitive and can be practiced at one’s convenience. In Yoga, there…

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