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How to Ease your Back Pain with Yoga

Exercise is important for maintaining a well-conditioned body throughout your life. But, what if you suffer from back pain? How can you get relief and still be able to perform a workout? Back pain can be caused by a number of things. In the workplace, falls are quite common. Twisting suddenly, falling and lifting heavy [...]

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Yoga FAQ

What is Yoga? The word “yoga” means “union.” Yoga is a psycho-physical discipline with roots that go back about 5,000 years. There is a lot more to yoga than physical postures (Asanas), or the breathing exercises (Pranayama) or even the meditation. In the true tradition of yoga the goal is union with the Absolute, known [...]

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Yoga For The Beginner

One of the amazing things about yoga is that despite the great benefits that it produces, it requires no costs. There is not specific yoga training equipment that one has to use in order to obtain the desired results and there is no such thing as the perfect environment required for practicing yoga. All this [...]

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Yoga Can Help You Lose Weight

We all know that yoga is good for your health and well-being, but does how does it tie into weight loss? After all, it isn’t aerobic exercise so can it really help to shed pounds? A recent study conducted by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA investigated the effects of yoga on [...]

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Trying to Quit Smoking? 5 Helpful Tips to Make it Through Your First Week

When it comes to breaking any addiction, the first week is often said to be the most challenging. Since your body is accustomed to daily doses of nicotine, it can react harshly when suddenly deprived of the drug, causing what are known as withdrawal symptoms. Like withdrawal from other drugs, beating a nicotine addiction can [...]

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Yoga in Practice: Excuses for Lack of Practice

At one time, or another, we all think, ‘Why am I here?’ Sometimes we think, ‘Why do I even bother?’ Thinking about giving up is a temptation for all of humankind, but we continue to pursue our goals just like our ancestors did. My wife, Marie, puts it bluntly, ‘You have two choices, push forward [...]

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Stress Management: 10 Tips For Working Mothers

In my practice as a hypnotherapist, I have many clients who come to me for stress management. Many of those clients are working mothers who fret about the demands on their time: children, husband or partner, paid work and unpaid household chores all pull these women in different directions. The day-to-day, constant small stressors leave [...]

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The Calm Within CD

Stress and your health Stress and tension are unfortunately both a part of our modern lifestyle and can affect almost everyone at some time in their life. Occasional stress is not necessarily a bad thing and can help one to perform at one’s peak when the pressure is on. Chronic stress, however, leads to imbalance [...]

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Yoga in Practice: Anger Management – Part 2

The next obstacle is self-righteousness or delusion. This is the belief that you are right, even though the universal laws of morality say you are wrong. How can genocide be justified? How can one race, or religion, justify alienating another? How can innocent civilians be slaughtered for retribution? Sorry to bring up such extremes, but [...]

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