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The times we are living in can easily cause us to feel disempowered.

We seemingly can’t trust information sources anymore. Facts have become blurry. Political and social issues are literaly splitting friends and families apart. It can be quite intense ju…

When I ask yoga teachers what Ashtanga is, they almost always start describing the primary series of poses. But it goes so much deeper than that. In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra—the most ancient and revered sourcebook for yoga practice— the eightfold path is ca…

Hatha yoga is effective for reducing anxiety, and efficacy increases with increasing number of practice hours, according to a meta-analysis published online May 20 in the Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine.

Stefan G. Hofmann, PhD, from Boston University,…

Alternative therapies meant to help us “break the train of everyday thinking” have effects on a cellular level.

The flight or fight response — the natural response to stress — essentially puts the nervous system in overdrive.

So it’s no surprise that it…