Yoga

The term yoga comes from a Sanskrit word which means yoke or union. Traditionally, yoga is a method joining the individual self with the Divine, Universal Spirit, or Cosmic Consciousness. Physical and mental exercises are designed to help achieve this goal, also called self-transcendence or enlightenment.

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- Yoga benefits back pain patients - 7.3
- Iyengar yoga improves stability and balance in women - 5.1
- Yoga reduces inflammation, stress, aging - 4.7
- Meditation Kriya Yoga an effective treatment for insomnia - 3.9
- 38% adults and 12% children use complementary and alternative medicine - 2.6

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Yoga reduces inflammation, stress, aging
Regularly practicing yoga exercises may lower a number of compounds in the blood and reduce the level of inflammation that normally rises because of both normal aging and stress, a new study has shown.

Yoga benefits back pain patients
People with chronic low back problems who do yoga also do better at overcoming pain and depression than people treated conventionally for back pain, a West Virginia University study funded by the National Institutes of Health shows.

Meditation Kriya Yoga an effective treatment for insomnia
Meditation may be an effective behavioral intervention in the treatment of insomnia, according to a research presented at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

Iyengar yoga improves stability and balance in women
A specific type of yoga - Iyengar yoga program - can help improve stability and balance in women over age 65, which could help to prevent falls, finds a preliminary study out of Temple University's Gait Study Center.

American physicians prescribe placebos on occasion
In the first study examining American physicians' use of placebos in clinical practice in the 21st Century, 45 percent of Chicago internists report they have used a placebo at some time during their clinical practice researchers report in the January issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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What is Yoga
The term yoga comes from a Sanskrit word which means yoke or union. Traditionally, yoga is a method joining the individual self with the Divine, Universal Spirit, or Cosmic Consciousness. Physical and mental exercises are designed to help achieve this goal, also called self-transcendence or enlightenment.

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