Newsletter August, 2013
In this issue:
Having trouble sleeping?
Most of us go through experiences periodically when we have trouble falling asleep when we go to bed. There are other times when you happen to wake up in the middle of the night, either due to a dream, some noise, or just because you have to go to the toilet, and then cannot go back to sleep. These episodes may represent minor sleep disorders or serious cases of insomnia.
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Setu-bandhasana (Bridge Pose)
The basic Setu-bandhasana -सेतुबन्धासन -(Bridge Pose) is a beginner-level pose and is highly beneficial for the health of the shoulders, spine, hips and thighs. At a deeper level, it helps calm the mind and can help relieve stress, mental fatigue, anxiety and depression.
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Yoga in the News
Science Demonstrates Yoga's Capacity to Heal the Mind
Scores of scientific studies continue to confirm the healing benefits of yoga for many of the common psychological and psychiatric conditions that afflict hundreds of thousands of people every year, including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), eating disorders, schizophrenia, and psychotic symptoms.
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Yoga Headstand Soothes Shoulder Pain
As those of you who have been attending my yoga classes know, shoulder pain is something that I have been battling with for some time now. A recent MRI has shown that I have a tear in my right shoulder rotator cuff. This article, sent to me by one of the students, came as a pleasant surprise and a refreshing confirmation of my own experience with the headstand pose during the last several months.
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How Yoga Could Help Keep Kids In School
Scientific evidence is mounting daily for what many have long sensed: that practices like mindfulness, meditation, and yoga can help us address certain intractable individual and societal problems. Prominent companies – Google, General Mills, Target, Apple, Nike, AOL, and Procter & Gamble among them – and prominent individuals have already embraced this possibility.
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The Morality of Meditation
MEDITATION is fast becoming a fashionable tool for improving your mind. With mounting scientific evidence that the practice can enhance creativity, memory and scores on standardized intelligence tests, interest in its practical benefits is growing. A number of "mindfulness" training programs, like that developed by the engineer Chade-Meng Tan at Google, and conferences like Wisdom 2.0 for business and tech leaders, promise attendees insight into how meditation can be used to augment individual performance, leadership and productivity.
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Have a question/suggestion?
If you have a yoga-related question, please write to me and I would do my best to provide an answer in a timely manner. I would love to hear your suggestions for future newsletter articles.
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