In The News: Yoga and Transformative Life Skills

• Yoga better than walking for mood, study confirms
  Those who practice yoga probably already know this, but a new study shows that yoga improves mood -- even more than walking.
• Yoga Enhances Mood, Relieves Anxiety
  A new research study suggests the performance of yoga provides specific benefits for improving mood and reducing anxiety.
• Can Yoga Help Kids And Teens Learn?
  A growing body of evidence suggsts that Yoga-based programs in schools can aid students by cultivating the qualities associated with successful learning.
• Yoga Reduces Inflammatory & Endocrine Responses To Stress
  Pioneer guided imagery researchers from Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio, examined whether the practice of hatha yoga can reduce stress responses
• Yoga keeps seniors who use wheelchairs fit
  A yoga class at the College Harbor Retirement Center in St. Petersburg is helping keep seniors who use wheelchairs fit and healthy.
• Effects of mindful yoga on sleep in pregnant women
  Experimental pilot study to measure the effects of a mindfulness-based yoga intervention on sleep in pregnant women.
  
• Yoga Practice Helps Sleep Quality Among Assisted Living Residents
  A new study shows that yoga exercise improved overall sleep quality, whereas depression, sleep disturbances, and daytime dysfunction decreased significantly.
• Gentle yoga may aid migraine sufferers
  A combination of yoga poses, breathing exercises and relaxation may help reduce the frequency and intensity of migraines, a new study suggests.
• Yoga can relieve trauma
  A week of yoga can reduce feelings of sadness and possibly prevent an increase in anxiety level after calamity.
• Yoga is for Every-Body: Join the path to Health and Happiness
  Yoga is generally celebrated for its ability to increase flexibility while strengthening, relaxing and toning the body, but one teacher is also keen to emphasise its importance for mental wellbeing.
• Yoga holds out a dose of hope for cancer-afflicted
  In the absence of effective counselling for those suffering from diseases like cancer, Aids and tuberculosis, researchers have now come out with a proven alternative way to tackle the shock from diagnosis and trauma of toxic treatment.
• India inmates take yoga to reduce their jail sentences
  Prisoners in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh are being freed early if they complete yoga courses.
• Yoga helps Rwandans with depression
  Project Air has helped over a thousand people in its first year.
• Yoga helps our respiratory system
  A regular yoga practice will give you the time to be more aware of breathing and to actually spend time breathing deeper than you might in normal everyday activity.
• Using Yoga for Diabetes
  Yoga is ideal for treating type 1 and type 2 diabetes. While many older folks may think yoga is for new-age hippies, a list of yoga’s benefits for diabetics often changes their minds.
• Can yoga and meditation prevent high blood pressure?
  Researchers at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre want to study if yoga, combined with meditation, can help lower blood pressure and prevent the onset of hypertension.
• How ancient yoga practice can improve your health
  Research shows that the relaxation response triggered through meditation can lower blood pressure and heart rate. The deepening of the breath calms the body.
• Yoga 'cuts inflammation'
  Incorporating yoga sessions in your daily routine could lower a number of compounds in the blood and reduce the level of inflammation that normally rises because of both normal aging and stress, revealed a new study.
• Finding a Better 'Position' to Deal With Disease
  At major cancer centers across the country, patients are putting themselves in a better 'position' to cope with their cancer. Some of the biggest names in cancer care -- M.D. Anderson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, among them -- now offer their patients classes in yoga.
• Yoga Benefits Cancer Patients
  Some of the major cancer centers across the country now offer their patients yoga as a complementary therapy in an effort to provide a more integrative approach to care. In addition, some physician-directed programs educate patients in yoga techniques.
• Yoga as a practice tool
  Studies show that practicing yoga can improve overall physical fitness, strength, flexibility and lung capacity, while reducing heart rate, blood pressure and back pain.