Asana — International Yoga Journal
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Nearly all participants noted they had dysfunctional toileting behaviors with voiding, showing a correlation between their toileting behaviors and lower urinary tract symptoms – the strongest correlation being…
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Asana (pronounced aasana) is usually translated as a posture. It is a seat or a sitting position as aasa in sanskrit means to sit. However if…
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1. Daily meditation and constant japa is the essential foundation of brahmacharya. The japa and meditation of the…
As the 21st century unspooled, yoga has increasingly taken on the after look in a before and aftermath…
In the past issues, we have gone through various skills – power up the baby toes, fuel the…
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Interview by Sebastian Thomas Dr . Holly Richmond is one of America’ s top Somatic Psychologists and Marriage Therapists who works with some of the biggest…
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Dysmenorrhea is one of the most frequent gynecologic disorders, affecting more than half of menstruating women. Most adolescents…
Until a few decades ago, heart disease was considered to be a show stopper and terminal. Subsequently, this…
Yoga Practice
Backbends are always a great challenge for “men of steel”. Some practitioners give up after trying for years…
Having strong abdominal muscles and back muscles is the key to advancing and deepening in various Yoga postures…
Studying yoga, you may notice that many asanas consist angustha-grab – a capture of big toe by three…
