Health Benefits of Yoga for Body, Mind, and Soul
For many years when I was younger, I struggled to find help for overeating problems. For a long time, I was overly influenced by “anti-diet” gurus such as Geneen Roth, Carol Munter, and Jane Hirschmann. Following the advice of these experts never helped me to become more peaceful about food, and my persistent efforts to [...]
Practicing yoga for weight loss is not just good for changing your body, it is good for changing your emotional well-being, too. Recently I interviewed Larry Sherman, who dropped his weight from 538 pounds to 190 pounds while practicing yoga five times per week. Mr. Sherman says that his experience with losing weight by practicing [...]
Larry Sherman once weighed 538 pounds. In 2006, Larry was so overweight he was in physical pain, to the point where he suffered a heart attack and he didn’t even realize it because chest pain felt normal to him. Larry was in emotional pain as well, constantly blaming himself for being overweight and calling himself [...]
“Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss” with Suzanne Deason is the DVD that I would take with me if I were to be stranded on a desert island. Don’t let the title fool you…this DVD is more than a weight loss yoga routine. The full DVD takes about 45 minutes to complete: 10 minutes of a [...]
This “Yoga Complete for Weight Loss” DVD features instructor Mary Pappas-Sandonas and offers 20 different routines with varying difficulty levels. I used the “Fatigue Fighter” routine on a weekend after I woke up feeling so tired and out of sorts, I just wanted to go back to bed. Instead, I decided to test whether the [...]
I bought Sara Ivanhoe’s 20 Min Yoga Makeover Weight Loss DVD as part of a five DVD set…the other titles in the series are, “Power Beauty Sweat,” “Total Body Tone with Weights,” “Flat Abs,” and “Sculpted Buns & Thighs.” The series is aimed at people who are very busy and who have limited time to [...]
If you are interested in a serious and thorough review of the general health benefits of yoga, “Yoga As Medicine” is the best book available. Author/physician Timothy McCall (the medical editor of Yoga Journal magazine) overviews yoga as medicine, the science behind it, the relationship of stress to health and healing, and a yogic approach [...]
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