Research Newsletter Issue 63: Yoga – the BEST Mood Booster for Cancer Patients

Research on Yoga as the BEST mood booster for cancer patients, and reviews of three Yoga Therapy books with chapters by Amy Weintraub
Research on Yoga as the BEST mood booster for cancer patients, and reviews of three Yoga Therapy books with chapters by Amy Weintraub
Enjoy this Centering Meditation led by Amy Weintraub. This practice is an excerpt from the LifeForce Yoga to Beat the Blues Level 1 DVD. You can purchase the physical DVD or stream live on your device and begin your practice immediately! The 75 minute DVD includes: 12 Programmable Chapters shot in HD Original music by William…
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Every March, for the past ten years, I’ve lead practices on and off the mat at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, a mind-expanding four days of workshops, keynotes, dancing and schmoozing with old friends in Washington, DC. Many of the therapists in our breakout sessions have gone on to become LifeForce Yoga Practitioners and now integrate…
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Today’s guest blog is by Karen Janowsky. Karen is a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner with over 1000 hours of yoga teaching experience. Yoga has brought Karen to a place of deep gratitude and compassion in her life. It also has made her realize life’s intention, to help guide others out of the darkness that is depression…
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Today’s post is by Megha Nancy Buttenheim, M.A. E-RYT 500, Founding Director of Let Your Yoga Dance®. She is a 28-year senior teacher at Kripalu Center, and Faculty for the Certification in Positive Psychology with Tal Ben-Shahar. In an abbreviated version of a seven-part blog series, Megha teaches two of her seven tools for finding Grace…
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Whether in the physical body or the emotional body, where there is discomfort, tension, constriction, breathe into it, allow yourself to feel it fully. There may be an image there, a color, a word or words or there may not. And then explore it’s opposite. Where in the body are you feeling comfortable, even radiant?.There…
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In this issue, we write about a study that attends to the subtler effects of meditation, asking how brain science can answer the question of how detachment and empathy might both be benefits of the practice. We also report on another prenatal yoga study coming from Brown University and Butler Hospital with encouraging news for pregnant women suffering from depression.
Source: earthchildproject.org Following their LifeForce Yoga workshops and trainings, I’ve talked to many classroom teachers, from elementary to high school to special needs, who have noticed a marked change in students’ behavioral issues like hyperactivity, as well as positive mood changes and in their students’ ability to focus, after the teacher introduced a simple yoga…
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Although pranayama breathing has been studied seriously since the early 90’s, this new study, coming out of Pondicherry, may be the first to compare a month of regular slow breathing practice like alternate nostril nadi sodhana to rapid breathing practice like skull shining Kabalabhati, to a control group who did not do pranayama breathing practice for a month….
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Live from Paradise Island in the Bahamas–LifeForce Yoga Module A! Rose Kress, Kathy Shafer, I and 19 Module A Participants began the course this morning with a puja to Ganesh, releasing whatever was blocking our hearts and minds from a deeper connection to radiant well being–Self. We practiced together, and then after brunch set a…
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In the East, aligning oneself with a teacher has long been a venerated devotional path towards realizing one’s full potential. The word “guru” means “from darkness to light.” Devotion to a guru, it is believed, can awaken the heart, moving the devotee from the darkness of ignorance (avidya) to the light of knowledge and love,…
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Amy gave the keynote at this year’s annual Kripalu Yoga Teachers Association conference about healing trauma. A colleague Deirdre Fay has edited the address on her blog into highlights that included all of the experiential pieces to try at home. Please enjoy!