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nilambu notes Vol 2 Issue 8
This is a special bulletin to bring your attention to a particular New York Times article for which free access ends tomorrow night. And also some other items about yoga and health. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and Happy New Year to you all. - Cassandra
in this issue - Yoga's Affect on Chronic Illness Recognized - My Obstacle - Medical Studies on Yoga |
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Yoga's Affect on Chronic Illness Recognized Last Thursday, December 15th, the New York Times printed an article, Chronically Ill Patients Turn to Yoga for Relief. The piece provides a very good overview of yoga's benefits for those with various illnesses such as AIDS or Chrohn's disease.
And one of the yoga studios featured is in my home town of Westfield, NJ (where I lived until I was 10 years old). Unless you are a Times Select member (which provides electronic access to archived articles), you have to click on the link before midnight Wednesday night. Otherwise, you'll have to pay to view it. Don't miss it.
Chronically Ill Patients Turn to Yoga |
My Obstacle Much of what was written above in the New York Times piece resonated for me. I made the same assertion as the first interviewee in the piece above. I've said many times over the last five years that yoga saved my life. I was lucky. I'd already been doing yoga for five years when I became ill.
To read more about how yoga aided me |
Medical Studies on Yoga With thanks to Professor Afton L. Hassett, Psy.D. of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, I'd like also to highlight several studies being done on yoga. She pointed out that through emotional balance, stress reduction and the physical exercise of yoga, the disease process can also be modified. These medical investigation in the effects of yoga can be found on the pubmed.gov web site, a service of National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. Thank you, Afton.
A study on heart disease and integrative medicine (including yoga) can be found here. A second study on cardiovascular disease and yoga specifically can be found here. This link provides a link to a full text article. This next study, done in Germany, focused on Iyengar yoga and alleviating emotional distress. Finally, this last study looked at biochemical indicators of risk for heart disease and diabetes. |
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