Search Results for 'Stretching'

Yoga, stretching both ease chronic back pain: US study

The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, looked at over 200 adults with lower back pain and found that participants in both types of classes reported more improvement in symptoms after three months than patients who were [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Yoga no better than stretching for bad backs

Yoga classes were linked to eased lower back pain in the largest controlled trial to date - but so were intensive stretching classes. The study was conducted by researchers at the Group Health Research Institute in the United States. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Study Indicates Yoga Helps Breast Cancer Patients Better Tha...

A US study indicated Wednesday that breast cancer patients who practice yoga experience lower stress and improved quality of life compared to counterparts who do stretching exercises. Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Can [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Yoga group keeps seniors stretching

Helen Daley always feels better after a morning of yoga. The active senior likes to stay in shape and travels often, having recently returned from an extended trip to Paris where her son lives. “I travel all over the world,” [...]

Posted On : Nov, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

Yoga's not just for stretching

Service was a recurring theme at the Omega Institute's Being Yoga retreat held in Rhinebeck from Aug. 20-22. More than 400 participants attended, socializing and taking classes with more than 25 yoga teachers."Your life is a tap [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Stretching the business of Yoga

There is so much going on in John Friend's life right now that an assistant once teased him about waking just before dawn and calling to ask for coffee, only to be reminded that he, Friend, was in Quito, Munich or Seoul, while the as [...]