Nouvelles Juin 2010
Attention : Une naturopathe québécoise qui tue
Mardi 23 Juin 2010
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Pourtant la Cour avait condamnée à deux reprises Mitra Javan mardi pour pratique illégale de la médecine, celle-ci ayant appliquée des protocoles de traitement qui sont strictement réservés aux médecins. Malgré tout elle a continué à défier la justice. Mal lui en prend, car à la suite d’une enquête du Collège des Médecins du Québec, elle se retrouve cette fois accusée d’outrage au tribunal et est passible de 50 000 $ d’amende, voire même d’emprisonnement.
Un de ses patients en est mort
Sur sa carte de visite, Mitra Javanmardi se présente comme docteur en médecine naturopathique. Or, seuls les médecins et dentistes peuvent porter ce titre professionnel. La « docteure » a causé la mort d’un de ses patients en 2008. Un homme âgé de 84 ans à qui elle a administré une solution minérale en intraveineuse. Le vieillard a immédiatement été pris de violents malaises et est décédé quelques heures plus tard d’un arrêt cardiaque.
C’était en juin 2008. Mais elle n’a pas été davantage inquiétée (son procès pour homicide involontaire est fixé à l’an prochain), puisqu’elle récidivait en empiétant dans le champ de la médecine. Elle connaîtra finalement sa sentence à la fin de l’été. Pour sa part, Gilles Parent, porte-parole des naturopathes agréés, estime que les agissements de Mitra Javanmardi sont de nature à discriminer la profession de naturopathe. Il presse le gouvernement du Québec de mieux encadrer leur travail....
TV, a bad teacher of yoga
Dimanche 21 Juin 2010
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Do you sit and perform complicated yoga postures day after day at home with only TV as your instructor ? It may be time to turn the idiot box off, as experts warn that practising yoga through mass media without proper guidance can do more harm than good.
"Yoga needs very close concentration and two-way communication is essential ; so the best way to perform yoga is with an instructor. The asanas (postures) and prakriyas (processes) somebody is imitating from TV may not be suitable for them and can create trouble," said Yogi Shri Ashish Chatterjee, president of Satya Foundation.
Yoga is India’s traditional physical and mental discipline which is associated with meditative practices.
Yoga is a Sanskrit word which is derived from the Sanskrit ...
India Journal: Where Are the Entrepreneurs in Yoga and Ayurveda?
Dimanche 21 Juin 2010
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Ever since the microfinance investment story began in India, investors have been scouting the “next big ‘social’ thing.” One category has been overlooked—affordable wellness. India has cultural assets—yoga and ayurveda—that, if harnessed effectively, could create tremendous value for communities and the economy.
But without social entrepreneurs and investors willing to take on the work of professionalizing these assets, we may never know their true worth.
Case in point : yoga. Pick any major city in the world—London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Bangkok—and you will find a great studio and a menu of yoga options. Try to find the same thing in Delhi, Mumbai or Calcutta, and you’ll have a difficult time.
With the exception of a bright spot or two in Mysore, Pune, and Rishikesh, practicing yoga in its birthplace is either exceedingly dull or completely bastardized (“power yoga” does not a yogi make). Yes, there are plenty of spots for “yogations” (yoga vacations) but they cater almost entirely to tourists and are often taught by tourists. Why come to India to be taught by a German instructor ? Where are the great Indian teachers...
Yoga Provides Multiple Benefits for Lawyers
Dimanche 21 Juin 2010
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It’s increasingly common for a lawyer’s day to include a hushed room of people, dressed mostly alike, with someone up front using phrases from an antiquated language. Except here the language isn’t Latin, and it’s not spoken in court. It’s Sanskrit, the language of yoga, and it’s adding a note of calm to a notoriously combative and stressed-out profession.
Practitioners of yoga and law might seem strange bedfellows. After all, "I recognize the divine in you" (one translation of "namaste," an oft-used yogic salutation) and "See you in court" send distinctly different messages. But the ancient concept of a link between body, mind and spirit is helping lawyers and firms cope with economic, health and emotional challenges.
Though the plaintiffs bar seems to have missed it, law school applications really ought to come with mandatory health warnings. Studies have found that lawyers suffer from stress-related conditions such as high blood pressure, weight management and heart disease at a well above average rate, and more than half of us describe ourselves as dissatisfied, with much higher than usual depression, divorce, suicide and substance abuse rates. Yoga serves as an antidote to these less pleasant by-products of the legal profession, addressing our myriad ills — of spirit, body and mind — in one fell swoop.
So it’s not surprising that firms are using yoga to help lawyers achieve stillness and peace amid the tumult of the workday. In Newport ...
Babar Family Yoga Class
Dimanche 21 Juin 2010
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Children of all ages will enjoy learning the basics of yoga at Tyler Museum of Art during “Babar Family Yoga,” slated for two sessions on Saturday, June 19 at 2 and 3 p.m. Parents can learn how to bend and stretch like Babar along with their kids during this exciting event. Reserve your own yoga mat today by calling the TMA at 903.595.1001. The classes are offered free of charge and will be taught by yoga instructor Sandy Shepard. The TMA will host a second installment of “Babar Family Yoga” on Saturday, July 24.
“One of the unique books in the Babar series is titled Babar’s Yoga for Elephants,” said Ken Tomio, head of education for TMA. “We have anticipated this particular partnership with Sandy Shepard with much excitement, because it incorporates important but separate areas of interest - art, children’s literature, and physical fitness.”
Participants should arrive dressed and ready for an introductory level yoga program. Each session will last just under one hour. “Yoga increases concentration, builds confidence, self esteem and self control,” said Ms. Shepard, who has been teaching yoga for over three years. “I was pleased to be approached by Tyler Museum of Art to lead family yoga as a partner for the Babar exhibition. Children today have busy schedules, experience peer pressure, are often over-stimulated ; they can get maxed out,” said Ms. Shepard. Yoga is well ...
GSDG finds 15 rare species of plants in state
Dimanche 21 Juin 2010
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PUNE : The Geomatics Solutions Development Group (GSDG) of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have encountered 15 rare, endangered and threatened species (RET) of plants across the state during the development of geomatics technologies in the forest cover of the state.
Satish Pardeshi, member of the GSDG, C-DAC, said, "We have been studying the forest cover of the state for biodiversity characterisation. Satellite images of the major forests in various parts of the state were taken during the study. These images covered an entire terrain which made it possible for us to study a region in detail. These 15 species were found during the study in various parts of the state."
The database collected from the study and the 15 species area and specific location has been provided to the particular forest department for conservation and to take further steps.
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So you think you’re fit?
Dimanche 7 Juin 2010
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Open a newspaper or magazine, switch on a TV channel or pick up a packaged food product, and chances are, sooner or later, you will find yourself coming across the word ‘fit’. These days, we are constantly bombarded with images and information about staying healthy, keeping fit and building our stamina.
But who qualifies as a fit person ? Is it someone with a slim, well-toned and sculpted body ? Is it someone who rarely falls sick ? Or is it someone who can run a marathon without collapsing ?
According to the experts, it’s all this and more. “In simple terms, fitness means being able to perform a physical activity without any stress,” explains Dr Sandip Buddhiraja, head, internal medicine, Max Healthcare, Delhi. He adds, “It also means having the energy and strength to feel as good as possible. However the World Health Organisation (WHO) defines fitness as ‘a state of physical, mental, spiritual and emotional well being.’ You may be physically fit but if you are not mentally or emotionally relaxed and happy, then that fitness won’t be of any use to you.”
Clinical exercise specialist Namita Jain adds, “Being fit helps you feel better and gives you more energy for work and leisure. Children and teens with a high level of fitness may have more energy and focus better at school too. Moreover, when you stay active and fit, you burn more calories even when you’re at rest. Being fit lets you do more physical activity. And it lets you exercise harder without as much work. It can also help you manage your weight.”
Besides this, being fit is also good for your heart, lungs, bones and joints. “It lowers your risk of heart attack, diabetes and blood pressure. It can help you sleep better, handle stress better and keep your mind sharp,” adds Dr Buddhiraja.
But before one tries to achieve a fit body, health experts advise some caution. Says Leena Mogre, director, Leena ...
India to patent yoga asanas
Dimanche 7 Juin 2010
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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has prepared patent formats of nearly 900 yoga asanas (postures), to prevent European and American companies involved in fitness-related activities from claiming them as their own.
These asanas will all be included in the digitalised Traditional Knowledge Library (TKDL), set up by the council to collect and record traditional treatment therapy knowledge. Medicines and yoga asanas registered with it enjoy the status of being patented.
"Video recordings of the asanas are also being made and recorded to prevent them from being stolen," said TKDL director Dr VK Gupta.
The CSIR began the project in 2006.
These 900 asanas have been collected from Patanjali’s classic work on yoga, as well as other ancient classics like the Bhagwat Gita.
Gupta said a number of countries had already laid claim to around 250 of these postures. Some foreign companies have even patented some of them.
Foreign companies have been selling some of the yoga postures as therapies to relieve stress or backaches.
"How can someone else patent these asanas which are a part of our traditional treatment therapy knowledge ? They should not be allowed to use them for commercial purposes," Dr Gupta said.
The CSIR’s next step will be to move against the yoga patents already registered abroad.
The United States patent office alone has issued around 3000 patents on yoga postures and their variations.
One: the Body, Mind & Spirit channel adds new programs for summer
Mercredi 3 Juin 2010
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The Ayurvedic Way : New season
Various airtimes, starting Saturday, May 29
Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest systems of traditional healing. Rooted in early Hindu teachings, it promotes healthy living by stressing balance and harmony among the different parts of the self. In this engaging and informative series, returning to One for a brand new season, hosts Randall Mark and Amrita Sondhi (author of The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook) reveal the 5,000-year-old secrets of the Ayurvedic way. Venturing from the kitchen to the grocery store to the gym, they explore Ayurveda’s uniquely holistic approach to health and wellness, demonstrating exercises and recipes that can curb stress and insomnia, stimulate your creative side and maybe even help you to find that special someone.
For program airtimes, visit www.onebodymindspirit.com
Healing Quest
Saturdays, starting May 29, 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT
Mondays, starting May 31, 12 noon and 8 p.m. ET / 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT
Today, more and more of us are exploring alternatives to high-tech Western medicine in our pursuit of better health. In this award-winning magazine series, hosts Judy Brooks, Olivia Newton-John and Roy Walkenhorst offer a carefully researched practical guide to the ever-expanding array of new health choices, from acupuncture to herbal remedies. Each episode of Healing Quest features reports from the frontiers of complementary medicine, along with helpful nutrition tips, insights from wellness experts such as Deepak Chopra, and a meditative "healing moment."
For Healing Quest information and resources, visit www.healingquest.tv
Namaste
Weekdays, starting May 31, 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. ET / 6 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. PT
Kate Potter, one of Vancouver’s most renowned Hatha yoga teachers, is the writer and choreographer of this innovative instructional series, filmed in some of British Columbia’s most scenic locations. Each episode guides the viewer through a unique and invigorating sequence of exercises that will deepen your appreciation of yoga’s physical and mental benefits. Designed for both beginning and experienced yoga practitioners, Namaste is a revitalizing half-hour that will leave you rested and ready to live serenely in a hectic world.
To learn more about Kate Potter and Namaste, please visit www.namaste.tv
Yoga owes its American popularity not to some mystic Indian swami but...
Mercredi 3 Juin 2010
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Yoga owes its American popularity not to some mystic Indian swami but rather to the toil a century ago of a forgotten white man from Iowa once infamous in the tabloids for his insatiable sexual appetite.
That is the revelation of "The Great Oom : The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America," a book telling the unlikely tale of Pierre Bernard — born Perry Baker in Leon, Iowa — who started to popularize hatha yoga in America a century ago with the help of the Vanderbilts.
These days some 20 million Americans practice yoga, but few have heard of Bernard — once infamous in the yellow press which derided him as "Oom the Omnipotent" and at one time as well known as circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.
"Yoga was here in America in almost the exact form that we know it today 100 years ago and this fellow with a loose reputation from the middle of the country was the one who made it popular," author Robert Love said in an interview about his book.
"This is the first book that has made the case for Bernard’s importance in the history of yoga."
Love paints a fascinating picture of the struggle to make the now popular regimen of exercise and meditation acceptable. Bernard promoted yoga, as well as freedom of sexual expression and women’s liberation, at a time when America’s social mores were strict and repressed.
"He made yoga safe for Americans and made America safe for yoga," Love said, adding that in the first couple of decades of the 20th century yoga "was so far from mainstream society that it was nearly considered a crime to participate in it."
SWAMIS AS SCHEMERS
Yoga outfits, tights and revealing tops were scandalous. Coed exercise sessions were outrageous. Bernard gave tabloids plenty of fodder with his promiscuity and for his a penchant for free sex decades before the flower power era...
Green Juice and Twitter Prayer
Mercredi 3 Juin 2010
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Russell Simmons, 52, hip-hop pioneer and founder of Rush Communications, helped bring the rhymes of Public Enemy, LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys to the masses as a partner in Def Jam Recordings. He injected his hip-hop sensibility into clothing with Phat Fashions and moved into television with “Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam.” Mr. Simmons recently created GlobalGrind.com, a Web site for the hip-hop community. A native of Queens, he has since migrated to a penthouse in Lower Manhattan.
MORNING MEDITATION I usually wake up about 7 on Sunday. I take a steam and a shower and I meditate. Some mornings at 8, the monk comes by. I call him the monk. He’s a T.M. (transcendental meditation) teacher, Bob Roth. He’s renunciative. We meditate, at least 20 minutes.
IN FRONT OF AN ALTAR ? My crib, the whole thing’s an altar.
COMPUTER TIME I play on the computer and see what headlines we have up on Global Grind. We don’t do anything negative on there. If ...
Doctor, doctor: Can Bikram yoga really help the heart?
Mercredi 3 Juin 2010
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I do Bikram yoga, and between postures we go into a position that the teacher says means our hearts have the least possible amount of work to do : lying on our backs, heels together and feet flopping apart, arms close to the body, palms up. Are the teachers correct ?
When you are horizontal, your heart doesn’t have to pump the blood upwards to your brain, and your venous return from your lower body doesn’t have to be forced upwards against gravity. So, simply from a mechanical viewpoint, this is the position in which your heart has the least work to do. In that respect, at least, your teacher is correct. However, I don’t see how keeping your heels together or your arms close to the body can make an extra difference over allowing them to spread apart – I’m not sure there is any physiological sense to it or, indeed, any evidence to support the theory. As long as your legs and arms are horizontal, it will make no difference where you position them. But I’m sure it is an established part of a yoga routine, and that’s fine. And remember, it is advisable to rest for a while after strenuous exercise, to let your heart rate return to normal, before starting on the next exercise.
I am frankly depressed. I don’t feel bad enough to do myself harm, but I can’t see a future ahead in which I could be happy. I don’t want to take antidepressant drugs, so what’s the best way forward ?
Your doctor will want to talk to you at length about your mood and how to help you. That isn’t just about prescribing drugs, but discussing your feelings, attitudes, emotions, relationships with family and friends, and about how best to respond in a way that can lift you, rather than make you feel worse. You may be asked to have cognitive behaviour therapy. Don’t dismiss antidepressants – the combined approaches of counselling, behaviour therapy and drugs can help a lot – and don’t despair, but do seek help. Ask for an extended surgery appointment and explain why you want it. You must not try to work through this alone....
Yoga in schools helps kids relax, concentrate
Mercredi 3 Juin 2010
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Sophia Cumming is about to transform into a butterfly. More impressive yet, the Grade 6 Calgary student is going to teach 11 of her peers the butterfly yoga pose at the same time.
"Begin in the ’L’ sit position," she says, reading from a YogaKids Tools for Schools flash card.
Gradually, the children, along with yoga instructor Nina Spotswood, take on the shape of colourful flyers : Bent knees and elbows become wings, and index fingers turn into antennae. The kids laugh because it’s a bit silly, but they’re unconsciously working on improving their posture and flexibility through a simple pose.
The children are gathered in the school gym over lunch as part of Yoga Club at Earl Grey Elementary. Together, the 11 girls and...
Listen to the mountains speak
Mercredi 3 Juin 2010
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It is a chilly 3 a.m. Yet, I find myself slouching grouchily through a garden brandishing a frightfully pink yoga mat. Surrounded by nauseatingly cheerful people : A fiesta of track pants, tattoos and chic, jewelled turbans.
Spiritual Rishikesh is not easy to love. Certainly not at first sight. Not if your mantra is materialism, at any rate. Or if your idea of a holiday involves croissants in bed at 11.00 a.m.
Yet, by 4.00 a.m., we’re meditating in cross-legged silence on a stony floor, ‘awakening our chakras’. Well, some of us are. My chakrasonly respond to mochaccinos. Fortunately, no one frowns on Shavasana, that deliciously languid yoga posture. So I lie down and sneakily nap till breakfast.
And a good thing too.
We’re at Parmarth Niketan, set in Rishikesh’s Swarg Ashram area on the east bank of the Ganga. Where the action never stops.
Signing up with Connect With Himalaya for a healthy, holistic holiday, I imagine spas, boutiques and river cafes. I quickly learn that Gaurav Punj’s idea of rejuvenation differs vastly from mine. (In hindsight, I should have got suspicious when his packing list included an LED torch, Electral packets and running shoes instead of eyelash curlers, body shimmer and stilettos.)
Ideal setting
Our power-holiday begins at Parmath, where Rishikesh’s annual International Yoga Festival is in full swing.....
Hunger strike by ABVP Pathetic condition of Ayurveda in Tibbia College
Mercredi 3 Juin 2010
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THE ABVP activists are on a hunger strike in Tibbia College of Delhi against the conspiracy to eliminate Ayurveda from the medical college. There is no professor of Ayurveda in the college for the last three years and the MD course has been in suspension since then. Instead of making any arrangement of the professors, the authorities say that the College does not have even a single professor in the Ayurveda Department when the students inquired the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM).
The Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia Medical College is among the top most Colleges of India and also a national heritage as it was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. It is affiliated to Delhi University. Every year crores of rupees are sanctioned by the Delhi Government for it, but still there is no sign of development there. In spite of being a Medical College, there is not a single professor of Ayurveda in the College. There is one more reason of the ABVP protest. The students of the College have filed a complaint against the College principal Dr Ahmad Yasin, who had allegedly submitted a fake certificate in order to get the job back, and also got an extension at the respective post illegally. The students are protesting against the principal since April 28 and they are on hunger strike since May 3. They closed the OPDs, the main office and interrupted the interviews. The students even did not attend the classes in order to get the attention of the higher authorities. In spite of all this, there is nobody to look into the matter and make suitable decision. Meanwhile, a student delegation also tried to meet the Principal Secretary (Health) of Delhi, but he simply refused to meet them and did not answer any of their questions.
Central Park to Host World's Largest Yoga Event
Mercredi 3 Juin 2010
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Next month you might be able to take your downward dog into the Guinness Book of World Records.
A mass yoga event planned on the Great Lawn of Central Park hopes to draw 10,000 yogis — the largest yoga gathering in history.
The free event is set for the evening of June 22, the first day of summer.
If you want to participate, submit your name and best karma to www.flavorpill.com/yoga beginning May 20th. Drawings will be made at random, according to Flavorpill.
The free yoga class will be taught by acclaimed yogi, Elena Brower who has helped sculpt the asanas and bodies of celebrities like Christy Turlington and Naomi Watts.
The event is open to all ages and skill levels.
Yoga in the Rockies: Lifted to a higher plain
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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I watch, spellbound, from the grounds of the Banff Springs hotel as the dusting of snow on Mount Rundle turns pink in the setting sun. The craggy, layered formations of the Canadian Rockies are softened by tiny, pastel-coloured clouds scudding across the darkening sky. If it were winter, I’d be thrilled by the prospect of skiing the following morning.
It’s not winter, however, but Midsummer’s Day and I’m in Banff to experience "heli-yoga", a notion that sounds as intriguing as it does absurd, and is thus irresistible.
Rising early next morning, I leave a misty Banff for the two-hour drive to the heliport along one of the world’s most scenic roads – the Icefields Parkway – past towering 11,000ft peaks, stark glaciers and glittering lakes the blue of a robin’s egg. ...
No entry into the U.S. because of ... yoga
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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Michelle Lam never expected she would be barred entry into the U.S. because of a peaceful passion — yoga.
The dental hygienist was among five Windsor women who were fingerprinted, photographed and denied entry into the U.S. a couple of months ago for travelling to Royal Oak for a $2,500 Namaste Yoga course that would help them become instructors.
"The whole yoga thing was for the soul and mind and good things," Lam said Tuesday. "I didn’t expect it to be such a crime."
Regulations at the U.S. border require foreign visitors to obtain a student visa for vocational training — which a yoga instructors’ class is.
Lam wasn’t just denied entry, she was barred from entering the U.S. for five years because she told an American customs agent that she was going shopping but did not at first admit that she was also heading to study yoga.
"I want to alert Canadians that whatever necessary paperwork needs to be done, they should do so,"...
Study Finds Certain Drugs Can Keep Some Forms of Cancer in Remission Longer
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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Using certain anticancer drugs for years at a time can help keep some types of cancer in remission longer, doctors reported Thursday.
In another finding, researchers said they had made progress on a long-sought goal — developing a way to screen healthy women for ovarian cancer, potentially catching tumors before they become virtually incurable.
The research findings were among more than 4,000 that will be presented next month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Among the others : a randomized trial showing that twice-a-week yoga sessions can help cancer survivors sleep better and reduce their fatigue.
The studies on longer cancer treatment involve what is called maintenance therapy. It is a strategy for making cancer into a chronic disease like diabetes or hypertension, held in check by continuous use of...
Yoga Happening
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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The founder of Toronto’s new Yoga Happening insists his project is not a secret society for yoga. He just won’t tell you where or when the sessions take place. Or who teaches them. Or his own name.
His hope is the dearth of information will be a form of know-nothing nirvana for yoga enthusiasts who are feeling contorted by their own overly structured routines.
“Yoga” is a Sanskrit word meaning “to unite,” but, as Toronto’s many yogis and yoginis can attest, the city’s population of practitioners is anything but united. As it grew in popularity, yoga in North America also became more specialized. Now a newcomer has to choose between styles like “vinyasa,” “ashtanga,”...
Hot Yoga: tweaking the thermostat, finding the flow
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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When it comes to yoga, some like it hot but not too hot.
So yoga studios and fitness centres are finessing the tenets of hot yoga as set forth by the master, to find the middle way.
"Some people are turned off by the heat, some people are addicted straight off the bat," said Brooke Eddey, a hot yoga instructor at Crunch, the national chain of fitness centres. "Our room is around 90 degrees (. If it gets too hot, I turn it off."
Such thermal flexibility would be anathema to the strict followers of hot yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, who keeps a firm grip on both thermostat and sequence at his nearly 500 studios franchised worldwide.
A Bikram yoga room is heated ...
Cure for Gangrene
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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Curative power of Chameli and Neem leaves when coupled with Ayurvedic medicated bandage, surgical procedures and modern antibiotics can cure Fournier’s Gangrene, a festering bacterial infection which turns fatal in 40 per cent of cases.
Department of Shalya Tantra at Faculty of Ayurveda, IMS-BHU has successfully used a mix of Ayurveda and Modern Medicine to cure 300-plus critical patients of Fourniers Gangrene, a bacterial infection of skin, which affects genitals and perineum (portion between scrotum and anus in men and vulva and anus in women).
The disease caused by anaerobic bacteria which survive without oxygen, if not managed properly can turn deadly within a few hours, causing death due to septicemia complications, including acute renal failure...
Deep freeze for pitta person
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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Is the heat making you break into an angry rash ? Cool down with these chilled out foods
My husband is experiencing heat-related symptoms such as boils on the face, back and thighs. He works late, doesn’t eat regular meals and drinks occasionally. This is causing acidity and other digestive issues. On the recommendation of our family doctor, he has reduced his alcohol intake and tries to eat early, but the problem still persists. Can you suggest a diet to tackle this ?
After understanding the symptoms that you described, it seems like your husband is showing signs of an unbalanced pitta. Pitta is one of the tridoshas described by Ayurveda, which also includes vata and kapha. Pitta is responsible for all types of bodily processes including digestive, metabolic and intellectual. An imbalance in pitta gives rise to psychological ..
Yoga helps fatigue, sleep in cancer survivors
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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Cancer survivors might want to try yoga to sleep better and have more energy, according to a new study that will be presented at a meeting in early June.
"Physicians and oncologists are often uncomfortable advising patients who want to use therapies that are complementary to standard cancer therapy," Dr. Douglas Blayney, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, said in an interview.
"Here we have a studied intervention, one that has been subjected to clinical trials and, lo and behold, it seems to be beneficial," added Blayney, who was not involved in the new research...
Free Fencing Lessons, Yoga and Ballet
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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Sure, it’s an expensive city, but it doesn’t have to be. Every week we’ll offer a select look at interesting ways to spend the weekend without spending a lot.
Learn to parry with the instructors of the Manhattan Fencing Center. Some were members of the United States Olympic fencing team in Beijing, but they will teach foes of all ages and skill levels. Classes meet on Fridays at 1 p.m. on the Library Terrace of Bryant Park, on Fifth Avenue in front of the New York Public Library. Equipment is provided, but registration is required : (212) 382-2255 or manhattanfencing.com.
On Saturday everything old is new again. Bring your unwanted bedding, clothes, music and books to Bklyn Yard for Score !...
Yoga in Pokhara, Népal
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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“BREATHING clearly lifts the mind and spirit,” said Amar Puri, a wiry man in a sweat-stained T-shirt, as he crouched on a patch of lawn and poured saltwater in one nostril with a neti pot. He snorted and sneezed, as the morning mist hovered just above the lead-gray surface of Phewa Lake, reflecting the Himalayas. “And now,...
Injured veterans use yoga to heal
Mardi 2 Juin 2010
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Two years ago this month, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Brian Brennan was leading a patrol in Afghanistan when he suffered devastating injuries from the detonation of an improvised bomb.
Brennan suffered a collapsed lung, internal bleeding and a ruptured spleen and had both his legs amputated.
Part of the road back for the 23-year-old has included an innovative program at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center that uses yoga as physical therapy, and...
L’huile de poisson pourrait sauver des milliers de vies chaque année
vendredi 3 septembre 2010
L’European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine dévoile une nouvelle étude britannique sur les bienfaits de l’huile de poisson.
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Passport to Prana : Find your preferred yoga fix
jeudi 2 septembre 2010
DVDs with a yoga instructor and views of sugar beaches and waving palm trees are quite lovely and inspiring to get deep into Downward Dog. Try (...)
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Yoga teacher breaks marathon record
jeudi 2 septembre 2010
Yoga instructor Yasmin Fudakowska-Gow, 28, completed her 32-hour yoga marathon yesterday at 5 p.m. at Om West, the holistic centre studio she (...)
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India wins patent dispute against China for flu medicine
jeudi 2 septembre 2010
India has won a crucial patent dispute against China for treating influenza and epidemic fever through medicinal formulations using ’pudina’ (...)
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Ayurveda in the quest of recognition in UK
jeudi 2 septembre 2010
As Ayurveda, arguably India’s greatest gift to the world, is fighting for formal recognition in Britain, its leading practitioners are seeking to (...)
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MUCUNA PRURIENS - THE OLDEST TREATMENT FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE
jeudi 2 septembre 2010
An ancient civilisation in India practiced their medical doctrine called Ayurveda. They described the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease, which they (...)
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It’s official : India foiled China’s bid to patent pudina
jeudi 2 septembre 2010
NEW Delhi : The Union health ministry on Friday confirmed a TOI report on how India foiled China’s bid to patent the health benefits of pudina. (...)
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You Don’t Have to Be Ayurvedic to Keep Your Doshas in Balance
jeudi 2 septembre 2010
Since I started writing this nutrition column last summer, several of my friends — mostly yoga buddies — have suggested I look into this ancient (...)
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Book ’Stretch,’ by Neal Pollack
jeudi 2 septembre 2010
The standard template for spiritual memoirs begins with an existential crisis. In Neal Pollack’s "Stretch : The Unlikely Making of a Yoga Dude," (...)
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