yoga for depression

Opening Your Heart with Yoga

May 22, 2013

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi When I first started practicing yoga, I often would cry a lot (sob) during my practice. I didn’t really understand why this was happening and a part of [...]

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Study: Yoga Improves Quality of Life After Cancer – TIME

June 8, 2011

As any cancer survivor can attest, the side effects of many cancer treatments can often be overwhelming.  Now, what may seem obvious to many yogis – that yoga can improve sleep  and overall quality of life – has additional scientific back-up. Dr. Karen Mustian of the University of Rochester Medical Center designed a standardized program [...]

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Yoga soothes fibromyalgia pain – CNN.com

October 16, 2010
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Via CNN: Fibromyalgia patients who aren’t getting relief from prescription drugs and are in too much pain to exercise may want to try yoga, a new study suggests. A weekly two-hour yoga class reduced fibromyalgia symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and stiffness by 30 percent in more than half of the people who took it, [...]

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Yoga cuts depression by half in women with breast cancer – Telegraph

February 27, 2009

More good news about the restorative and mood altering benefits of yoga today. Researchers have found that restorative yoga classes cut depression in breast cancer patients by over fifty percent. “Yoga is one mind-body therapy that is widely available and involves relatively reasonable costs. Given the high levels of stress and distress that many women [...]

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