Inside Yoga 126 (12/1/15) New research has found that yoga could be as effective as cycling or brisk walking in reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke. This is not a surprise to yoga practitioners like myself who have discovered yoga’s benefits, but it is good to read that scientists have found the proof they need. The report’s experts […]
more >Inside Yoga 125 Last week a report into our health revealed that 50 per cent of women and 43 per cent of men regularly took prescription drugs. Dr Clare Gerada was quoted: “I think what we’re doing now… is over-treating and over-diagnosing”. How have we become such a drug dependent nation? It is a Western malaise, as a glance across […]
more >Inside Yoga 124 Have you ever wondered why we feel so low emotionally, so physically tired and so short of get up and go during winter? Perhaps it is because while the rest of nature has gone into either hibernation or inactivity, we continue to plough on with our 24/7 activities. Our ancestors didn’t live like we do now, as […]
more >Inside Yoga 120 (5/11/14) Back in the 1980s the Dalai Lama began working with cognitive scientists who were studying mindfulness meditation and Buddhist insights, and he welcomed this with open arms, but he probably did not imagine businesses and even the US military would one day want to harness some of those insights. Last week, the Dalai Lama attended a […]
more >Inside Yoga 119 (28/10/14) Scientists have discovered that the body has a pair of daily “rush hours” which affects the way tissues throughout the body work. The animal study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, monitored the function of cells, in 12 tissues, through the day. It found large shifts in activity just before dawn and dusk. According […]
more >Inside Yoga 115 (15/9/14) A few days ago a couple of publications were highlighting the effectiveness of meditation in reducing headaches and migraine. The news stories were citing a recent study that had discovered that meditation can reduce the number of migraines a person suffers from and also the length of migraine can be shorter by as much as 3 […]
more >Inside Yoga 114 (27/8/14) RIP BKS Iyengar “Words fail to convey the total value of yoga. It has to be experienced,” said the yoga teacher BKS Iyengar, who died last week, on August 20, at the age of 95. This short quote summed up a lot of what was important to this influential yoga teacher, because he lived and breathed […]
more >Inside Yoga 113 Finally, science has caught up with experience: with recent reports that scientific research has found “significant differences” between organic food and conventional food. Some of us who have already on the side of organics must be found mumbling to ourselves that “we told you so”! But this is how the science establishment operates – needing scientific and […]
more >Inside Yoga 111 (30/6/14) If you visit India there is one aspect of life which you will come into contact with and even sample from time to time, or even daily – the ubiquitous chai wallahs (tea sellers) who can be found on most streets selling tea by the bucket (well, more precisely, vat) load. Is there more to life […]
more >Inside Yoga 110 (18/6/14) For many people who have heard about yoga and meditation, but don’t know anything about it, what it actually entails can appear to be very other worldly, demanding mastery along the lines of the most agile of martial arts, or can feel complicated and steeped in mysticism and wonder. When I am asked about yoga and […]
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