Yoga is known for its ability of curing a number of ailments and alleviating the symptoms associated with them. Bhujangasana is a yoga pose offering a number of curative effects.  This yoga pose is basically an exercise meant for strengthening our back.  Performing Bhujangasana regularly will help women in getting rid of menstrual cramps and heavy bleeding. This asana strengthens muscles of our upper back and are also extremely beneficial for people with lower back aches. To perform this exercise, you will need to lie down on your stomach. Use the hands as pillows under the head and put the cheeks on the hands. Once you attain this position, do the following: Take deep breaths before you start doing Bhujangasana Relax your body Release the hands from its position under the head and bring  [...] 

Patient with vertigo often feels that the area surrounding them is spinning; due to this characteristic of the condition, it is also termed as the hallucination of motion. A person may get vertigo due to a number of factors; the most common ones include: insufficient flow of blood to our brain (common in patients with certain heart disorders or anemia), having diet containing excess salt, anxiety, emotional stress, insufficient flow of blood to the ears, skull injury, infections and certain neurological disorders. It has been found that yoga offers immense benefits to the patients with vertigo. Several yoga postures can offer benefits to vertigo patients, for instance salamba sirsasana, sanmukhi mudra, halasana, paschimottanasana etc. However, the most effective yoga pose for this disorder  [...] 

Today, a large section of the global population is suffering from depression. This article may offer some aid to people suffering from depression. Here we will be discussing the effects of laughter yoga on people with depression. Effects on state of mind: People with depression generally think pessimistically. On making laughter yoga a part of the daily routine people with depression can get back the positive state of mind. They start to think optimistically and the world again becomes beautiful for them and gradually they recover from the feeling of helplessness and depression. Effects on the neurotransmitters: Depression can occur due to hormonal imbalances and imbalance in the levels of neuropeptides in blood (this is common in patient developing depression due to excessive amount of stress).  [...] 

Power yoga is one of the best ways of staying fit and healthy. What is power yoga? It is basically a term used by the people belonging to the western part of the world for describing a fitness based, vigorous approach of performing yoga of vinasya style. Power yoga is described as one of the variants of Ashtanga yoga. This technique was modified to allow people in performing yoga in a more energetic, lively and appealing way. These features make it extremely popular among the people of the modern generation. The emphasis of this yoga variation is mainly on the fitness of the performer. You must have higher levels of flexibility and fitness for getting involved in this yoga form as majority of the power yoga poses are extremely difficult.  The first step of power yoga training revolves around  [...] 

A fastening of heartbeat is often seen to cause cardiac and pulmonary damages to the body. And with this, we don’t talk about the heartbeat that fastens due to exercise. The stress and anxiety, or excitement related fastening of the heartbeat is seen to bring about heart attacks among people. Doing the yoga pose called downward dog is seen to greatly help in calming a fastened heartbeat, that could prove dangerous. According to newer researches, suggestions are made that about half of the atrial fibrillation episodes are calmed by yoga. Atrial fibrillation is a condition of the heart rhythm which affects many millions of lives and increases the risks and probabilities of stroke. A small study demonstrated that 49 patients aging between 25 and 70 and having atrial fibrillation had spent 45  [...] 

Yoga is a remedial therapy for each and every disease and for one and all. When it comes to yoga, even children don’t want to stay lagging in the run. They want to experience the good of yoga and work it out like play and not exercise. Yoga is seen to reduce the risks and occurrences of ADD and ADHD and other mental disorders in children. When you train a kid to perform yoga he grows with it, and throughout his life he is in connection with the benefits of yoga. Also, considering some personality disorders in children, yoga is keen to help children to calm down, boost their confidence, help them regain their self- esteem, control feeling and emotions, relieve them from all the complexes, evade them from getting anxious and hyper, etc. Yoga also has numerous benefits for children who are completely  [...] 

Are you aware of how your body works, apart from the basic functions? Other than food and water, what does your body run on? After the heart and the brain, who drives the body efficiently? The endocrine system. All the glands of the body are the subsets of the endocrine system of the body. Glands secrete hormones, which in turn regulate all the major and minor functions of the body. The nerve impulses guide the endocrine system to trigger the secretion of hormones from the various glands. Some of the major glands in the human body include the thyroid, the pituitary, the para- thyroid, the pancreas, the adrenal, the ovaries (specific to females), and the testis (specific to males). Pituitary gland is the head of all glands, which controls the emotional setup of the brain. Whether a body is conscious  [...] 

There are plentiful benefits yoga can provide tone; but who shall be that one will decide his own dedication to yoga. Practicing yoga regularly and in a correct manner can only assure you the availing of benefits for it. Definitely, after spending a whole long and tired day at work, no one can be expected to be playful and sprightly like a kid. There are many factors catching up your abilities by the end of the day – tiresome, stress, age, etc. But, for those who think of having this fixed up, yoga is knocking at your doors to give you the feel- good factor. Yoga is food for the relaxation of body and mind. Postured yoga can give you a stretch in your external organs, while the internal ones can seek a massage through breathing and meditation. And not just the physical abilities of the organs,  [...] 

One issue of constant discussion since always has been the difference between Pilates and yoga. The objective of such a discussion is most of the times to arrive at a confirmed conclusion that which one is better, Pilates or yoga. The debate of Pilates vs yoga is mostly carried out among people who look out for the best physical fitness regime. The very first point of the debate comes to be the difference of ages when these two kinds of physical fitness regimes had been invaded. Yoga is ages old, while Pilates is the newer way to reach your fitness goals. Yet, the popularity that the latter seems to be gaining is enormous. However, the fact that both of them provide wonderful benefits in terms of health and fitness, finds the debate between Pilates vs yoga an immature discussion. Well, let’s  [...] 

Discontinuing practices of yoga may bring lack of flexibility and relaxation in people, says a new study. To sustain and improve regular yoga practices is a good idea. Some people have certain myths regarding yoga, which creates a false impression about it in the mind of non- doers of yoga. Due to these myths people refrain from doing yoga on a regular basis, which later makes them face numerous health problems in life. The study has answered these myths, and we will be listing some of them. Myth 1 Yoga can be performed only by young, extremely flexible and thin people. TruthThe ones pictured in magazines and commercials are not the ‘only’ ones who are legalized to do yoga. They are just there to raise the ad ratings. Yoga can be done at any age and in any size of body. In fact, the secret  [...]