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USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

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!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

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Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

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Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

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Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

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Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

link text
Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.**

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

link text
Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

link text
Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

link text
Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

link text
Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

!!WINNER ANNOUNCED!! --------- !!WINNER ANNOUNCED!!

link text
Yoga Pose

USER PRASANAYOGA HAS WON OUR HEALING THROUGH YOGA CAMPAIGN! Thank you to everyone who wrote us a beautiful experience of healing through yoga; we couldn't have asked for more eloquent shared experiences.

Check out our FoundHealth Blog on Monday April 18th where we'll highlight prasanayoga, and tell you about future FoundHealth campaigns! (To see prasanayoga's experience, visit our Depression and Yoga Experiences page.)

Thanks for participating. May you continue to grow, heal, and exude your inner light through your yoga practice.

~ FoundHealth Community Manager, Sarah Showalter (sshowalter@foundhealth.com)

Join our “Healing Through Yoga” Campaign and you could win $100.

From now until April 15th when you write a yoga review, you’ll be entered to win $100 to your favorite yoga center.

Simply click here to begin, or click on one of our links below!

Check out some of our top yoga review pages (once there, click "I've Tried It!" to share your review!)

To review yoga as a treatment for other health challenges, click here.

Join our movement; help tell how yoga is a great treatment here at FoundHealth!

... (more)

Yoga involves physical poses, breathing techniques, and meditation that are done with controlled breathing to promote relaxation of your mind and body. This form of mental and physical discipline began thousands of years ago in India. The word yoga was derived from a Sanskrit word which means to yoke or unify. With yoga, you unite your mind and body by focusing on carrying out quiet and precise movements that require balance as well as concentration. Uniting you mind with your body will boost your mental and physical health.

The conscious breathing exercises specifically can help with the treatment of sleep apnea, along with other lifestyle modifications.

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Yoga can be a great way to employ light, moderate, or rigorous exercise depending on what your body needs. Through asanas (poses), breathing techniques and meditation, yoga can help not only to heal the body, but also bring the person's awareness to what their body actually needs. The "mind-body" connection is often discussed when talking about healing treatments as the two are interconnected. Yoga employs both mind and body exercises, and brings them together as well!

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Yoga is great for overall health and emotional well-being, and specifically yoga can focus on strengthening certain areas of the body (including the liver which is extremely important to protect with viral hepatitis.) Suing poses ("asanas"), meditation and breathing techniques, yoga can help keep people happy and healthy.

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Yoga can be a part of a healthy treatment plan for sinusitis. When the body is functioning efficiently, there is less inflammation. Since inflammation causes sinusitis, yoga can help to mitigate some of these symptoms. Yoga usually involves a series of light, to moderate, to difficult poses ("asanas"), breathing exercising (specifically helpful for the treatment of sinusitis) and meditative components as well, all of which can help.

Find other natural remedies for sinus infections.

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Physical activity is important for the treatment of all health conditions, including psoriasis. On a purely physical level, exercise can increase circulation and help the body rid itself of the toxins it carries within, and often times these toxins manifest as dry skin. In addition to helping the body function more properly on a physiological level, the meditative component inherent in a yoga practice can help with physical illness' manifestations as well.

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As noted, physical activity is important for the treatment of all health conditions, including acne. On a purely physical level, exercise can increase circulation and help the body rid itself of the toxins it carries within, and often times these toxins some come out as acne. Yoga, in In addition to helping the body function more properly on a physiological level, yoga can help with the physical ilness' manifestations through the meditative component inherent in a yoga practice can help with physical illness' manifestations as well.

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There is no question that keeping a healthy weight helps protect people from lipid disorders. Yoga is a wonderful want way to exercise as you can start out with gentle poses and move into a more rigorous routine. But yoga is more than a set of physical poses, it also includes conscious breathing and mindful meditation practices as well, all of which can help treat myriad health conditions including lipid disorders.

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There is no question that keeping a healthy weight helps protect people from even reverse PCOS. Yoga is a wonderful way to exercise as you can start out with gentle poses and move into a more rigorous routine. But yoga is more than a set of physical poses, it also includes conscious breathing and mindful meditation practices as well, all of which can help treat myriad health conditions including polycystic ovarian syndrome.

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There is no question that keeping a healthy weight helps protect people from and even reverse a diagnosis of type-2 diabetes. Yoga is a wonderful want great way to exercise as you can start out with gentle poses and move into a more rigorous routine. But yoga is more than a set of physical poses, it also includes conscious breathing and mindful meditation practices as well, all of which can help treat myriad health conditions including diabetes.

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Experiences

Shared experience with Depression and Yoga 14 years ago

I started doing yoga to help calm my mind - to help stop the over-analytic and circular loops that perpetually took up my energy. I started to see profound effects pretty quickly - within about 2 weeks. Working with a practitioner one-on-one, we created a 20 minute personal practice that focused on simple moves that were guided by my breath and a period of meditation in a seated lotus position (the stereotypical "meditation" looking pose.)

I'm convinced yoga can work for people in different ways, but people need to be specific about what they're looking for. Going to yoga classes at the gym can be a great physical exercise, but might not include the breathing and meditation components that you want. Likewise, a yoga practice with simple poses may not physically stretch your muscles and get your heart pumping, so if this is what you're looking for, seek a more strenuous yoga practice.

In the end, finding effective treatments is all about self-reflection... no one treatment works for everybody, and really, you're the only one who knows what works for you.

I started doing yoga to help calm my mind - to help stop the over-analytic and circular loops that perpetually took up my energy. I started to see profound effects pretty quickly - within about 2...

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Shared experience with Back Pain and Yoga 14 years ago

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I started a personal 20-minute at-home yoga practice nearly a year ago, after a bout of depression was causing me acute back pain/spasms specifically. Stretching my back daily and learning to follow my breath helped a lot more than my back pain - it helped my depression as well.

I would definitely recommend working one-on-one with a yoga practitioner, so you can be sure to be doing specific poses that are helping (and not over-using) your back muscles. Group classes can be great as well, just make sure you aren't pushing too hard!

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Yoga on Beach

I started a personal 20-minute at-home yoga practice nearly a year ago, after a bout of depression was causing me acute back pain/spasms specifically. Stretching my back daily and...

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