Yoga for Back Pain

Many back pain sufferers find yoga to be very effective in reducing their pain. Over time, yoga can increase your strength and flexibility, effectively counteracting the tightness and weak muscles that cause many types of back pain. Each of the following sequences of yoga poses addresses particular back pain concerns: Note: Make sure to consult […]

Gate Pose – Parighasana

Type of Pose: Standing Benefits: Stretches the intercostal muscles between the ribs. Instructions: 1. Come into an upright kneeling position with the hips over the knees. Place a blanket under your knees if they are sensitive. 2. Extend your right leg out to the side, keeping the knee and ankle in line with your right […]

Starting Yoga With Arthritis

Arthritis Basics Arthritis is a general term that describes inflammation of the joints, which can manifest as variable amounts of pain, stiffness, and swelling. There are many kinds of arthritis, of which the two most common types are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. In osteoarthritis, the joints are deteriorating due to use over time; this type […]

Men's Yoga Shorts

Do you wear short shorts? If you do Bikram yoga, the answer is probably yes (unless you are wearing a Speedo, not that there’s anything wrong with that). Followers of other yoga styles tend to like their shorts a little longer, so here’s a range of yoga shorts for men, from the long and baggy […]

Chair Yoga

Chair yoga is a general term for practices that modify yoga poses so that they can be done while seated in a chair. These modifications make yoga accessible to people who cannot stand or lack the mobility to move easily from standing to seated to supine positions. Many of the basic body mechanics of the […]

Light on Yoga

First published in 1966, B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika has become a yoga classic and a reference stable for modern hatha yoga. Light on Yoga, a must-have for any yoga practitioner’s library, remains the gold standard for its illustration and explanation of hundreds of yoga poses. In the introduction, entitled “What is Yoga?,” […]

How Yoga Won the West

Vedanta Society of Southern California Vivekananda, who traveled widely to deliver his spiritual message, in Pasadena, Calif., in 1900. Ann Louise Bardach is a writer at large for Newsweek. She is working on a biography of Vivekananda. THE party planning is in full swing throughout India. Never mind that the big day, Jan. 12, 2013, […]

Step by Step With an Automated Start-Up

Courtesy of Hari NYC.Hari Kaur: mixing yoga and jazz with a start-up. Tech Support What small-business owners need to know about technology. In my last post, I described a Web-based service called Wicked Start that can bring a measure of automation to the process of getting a new business off the ground. Wicked Start lays […]

Yoga Therapy May Help Prevent and Treat Orthopedic Problems

With the costs of medical care spiraling out of control and an ever-growing shortage of doctors to treat an aging population, it pays to know about methods of prevention and treatment for orthopedic problems that are low-cost and rely almost entirely on self-care. As certain methods of alternative medicine are shown to have real value, […]

Players on Cornell’s Round of 16 Team Get Ready to Play Overseas

Josh Haner/The New York Times From left, the former Cornell players Jeff Foote, Aaron Osgood, Jon Jaques and Ryan Wittman with an instructor during their yoga class at the 92nd Street Y. Coming off the elevator and into the lobby at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, an elderly woman could not resist. “Wow, he’s […]

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