Yoga is good for your health.

This story Studies show yoga has multiple benefits | Health | Reuters reports that: “Yoga induces a feeling of well-being in healthy people, and can reverse the clinical and biochemical changes associated with metabolic syndrome, according to results of studies from Sweden and India. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity and high blood sugar.”

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Yoga is a great help for stress, and helps you to heal from many illnesses, even cancer.

Some oncologists are now recommended yoga classes to their patients.

“Yoga: Help in healing” reports:

“Yoga means union, it’s about welcoming that body back, honoring that body, loving that body,” she said. “Yoga therapy helps the whole person heal.”

Cancer and the fear of its return can lead to anxiety, so certain poses and breathing exercises are emphasized to calm the mind and body, Kessell said. Another component of yoga, meditation, allows people time to reconnect with themselves and reflect. Visualization techniques focus on imagining healing energy in and around the body. Some classes include a support group, with time set aside for checking in and talking.

Yoga gently reminds you to stay in the moment, and to live your life. For cancer survivors, yoga can help them to come to terms with their illness and find joy in their life.

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Trying to save the world through the power of laughter and yoga reports: “Workshop participant Sparky Lovejoy, a yoga teacher and massage therapist from Santa Rosa, says laughter yoga has been life changing.

‘On a physical level, it cleared up an ongoing sinus problem in a month. On an emotional level, it helped me overcome fear, anxiety and helped me relax,’ she said. ‘I’m not so afraid of people, and I’ve finally found a reason to come out of hiding.’”

Yoga and laughter sounds like a great idea. You could of course devise your own sessions at home – put on your favorite comedy DVD or CD during your yoga workout.

Yoga always shifts your energy – if you start your session feeling depressed or tired, you’ll feel happier and more energized afterward.

Yoga is good for you, and as the truism states, laughter is the best medicine.

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