Yoga Exercises for Back Pain 3 – Hip Work For a…

This series of standing yoga poses addresses several of the causes of back pain – tight hamstrings and weak hips. The series starts with Mountain Pose which helps establish a postural baseline. You will then move into three poses that stretch the hamstrings and strengthen and align the hips. Begin the series by coming to […]

Yoga for Men

Sometime in yoga’s recent history, a gender shift occurred. Yoga, which traditionally has been practiced only by men, began to be dominated by women. Today, an average yoga class will have more female than male students. In the United States, your yoga teacher is also more likely to be female, although there are a great […]

California: Judge Allows Yoga in Schools

Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @NYTNational for breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors A judge ruled Monday that the Encinitas Union School District can teach yoga, siding with administrators who argued that the practice was a secular way to promote strength, flexibility and balance and rejecting pleas of some parents who […]

How to Choose a Yoga Style

Question: How to Choose a Yoga Style Answer: If you are brand new to yoga, you may want to take a few hatha classes to learn the basic poses. However, hatha is usually slow-paced, so if you are the kind of person who likes to move around more, don’t get turned off. There are many […]

What's The Best Time To Do Yoga?

Question: What’s The Best Time To Do Yoga? Answer: Some yoga traditions, such as the Ashtanga system of Pattabhi Jois, advocate doing yoga asanas early in the morning, if possible before the sun rises. In Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iynegar advises doing yoga early in the morning or late in the evening, noting that there […]

Useful Yoga Poses

By Ann Pizer, About.com Guide Updated December 07, 2011 About.com Health’s Disease and Condition content is reviewed by our Medical Review Board Everyone needs a party trick! (Feel free to substitute the arm balance of your choice.)

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