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Feb 12

Yoga for healthy skin is easiest in the warm climate of Arizona

If you're shopping around for a holistic program that can help you focus on good skin care, look no further than your nearest Arizona community center. That's because yoga for healthy skin is easy to practice when done in the warm, dry climate of the Grand Canyon State.

Here are some tips for maintaining firm, younger-looking skin with mind-body practices:

1. Enjoy warm days outdoors. Doing yoga in the warmth of an Arizona sunrise can rekindle your spirit and make you glad to greet the day. Likewise, a warm, temperate climate keeps your body's energy flowing smoothly and evenly.

2. Stay cool with a yoga uniform. Rather than buying restrictive, clingy yoga outfits, stay cool with a loose, organic-fiber smock and pair of pants. Wearing such a uniform (especially one that's all white) can help your body regulate its temperature and keep your skin cool and uninflamed.

3. Get a few minutes of direct sunlight. Many Americans get far too little vitamin D in their diets. To help make sure you're topped up on this nutrient, get 15 minutes of direct sun exposure each day. This allows your skin to synthesize its own supply of vitamin D.

4. Try laughing exercises outdoors. Arizona's famous energy vortices will give your skin's firmness a boost, and so will laughing exercises, which make the perfect complement to yoga for healthy aging.

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Feb 12

Counselors recommend yoga for a healthy mind during depression, grief

Plenty of Americans use yoga for health problems, whether it's backaches, neurological symptoms or joint stiffness. But what about emotional issues? Can yoga help heal the wounds that come with grief, loss and mourning?

According to a group of holistic experts, it can. Grief counselor and yoga instructor David Mitchell told the Louisville Courier-Journal that the mind-body regimen helps people find strength within themselves, even as they gradually let go of a lost loved one.

"We hold grief physically within ourselves…and you see that reflected in tight muscles, new aches and pains, stomachaches, headaches," he told the newspaper. "You see even people's faces kind of locked up."

Mitchell is right that the regimen is perfect for this kind of self-healing. A study published in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy found that the mind-body treatment can improve positivity, vitality and mood in people who lost someone dear to them.

For these reasons, Mitchell and his colleagues teach yoga for a healthy mind during depression and grief. Their sessions are designed to help mourning practitioners cope with loss, find themselves and even learn to laugh again – all of which are benefits that Dahn Yoga's Shim Sung classes can also provide.

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Jan 12

People with osteoarthritis may use yoga for healthy knees

Having osteoarthritis can be seriously painful, especially when the condition affects the joints of the legs. Even for folks who are seasoned yoga practitioners, it's not always clear what the best stretching exercises for knee pain are.

Still, a new study has concluded that people with osteoarthritis can use yoga for healthy knees. In particular, the report noted that the holistic health routine is good for individuals who are over the age of 50, obese and suffering from degradation of the knee joints.

Researchers began by asking dozens of obese osteoarthritis patients to engage in weekly yoga classes. The program utilized stretching exercises that had been modified to suit people with limited mobility and flexibility.

The team found that people who used yoga tended to experience improvements in stiffness and pain level. The results, which included no negative side effects, appeared in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 27 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis. Is it any wonder that in a survey, 18 percent of adults told the agency that they had experienced knee pain in the prior 30 days?

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Dec 11

As baby boomers retire, yoga for healthy aging becomes more important than ever

Yoga's stretching exercises for seniors are similar to those used by everyone else – they promote flexibility and strength while helping enthusiasts relax and reconnect with themselves. That said, yoga for healthy aging is becoming an increasingly important form of physical activity for the millions of Americans hitting retirement age.

Nationally, the numbers on elderly adults are pretty jaw-dropping. In 2009, the federal government's Administration on Aging (AOA) tallied about 40 million Americans aged 65 or older. The agency estimates that in just two decades, that figure will leap to 72 million!

By 2030, one in five Americans will be at least 65 years of age, the AOA notes.

This trend is largely due to two factors – namely, the large number of people born in the baby boomer generation and the increasing average lifespan (due to improving health technology).

However, living to one's golden years does not guarantee health or happiness. Many aging Americans suffer from physical ailments and cognitive decline. To slow the progress of these problems, or to reduce their severity if they occur, elderly yoga enthusiasts may consider increasing the number of times they practice the holistic regimen each week.

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Dec 11

Can you really use yoga for healthy skin?

Every day, yoga enthusiasts utilize the mind-body regimen to reduce the severity of any number of health conditions. But some uses can seem a little far-fetched. Like yoga for healthy skin – is that even real?

You bet it is! Think of it this way. Yoga is a holistic healing routine, meaning its primary goal is to help the body maintain overall well-being by promoting health in each organ system. Being an organ, your skin deserves to be soothed and refreshed.

The skin is the body's largest organ, in fact. The National Institutes of Health estimates that the average person's skin weighs between six and nine pounds and is two square yards in area. You can see why your epidermis is so important – it is the thin, sensitive barrier between you and the world.

Most people's epidermis needs a little pampering. After all, skin conditions are rampant in the U.S. Between 1 and 3 percent of adults, not to mention 10 to 20 percent of children, suffer from eczema, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Many people also suffer from rashes, hives, skin allergies, psoriasis and other dermal conditions.

Fortunately, yoga for health problems can help you maintain healthy skin. Exercises that cool your skin, stimulate it, shake it or vigorously rub it can release toxins and help your flesh stay plump and firm.

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Dec 11

The elderly enthusiastically use yoga for healthy aging

Whether they take special meditation classes or utilize stretching exercises for seniors, many elderly Americans are just wild about yoga. Studies have shown that this enthusiasm is well-founded, since the holistic regimen entails a number of benefits for aging adults.

An article in the Southern Methodist University (SMU) newspaper, The Daily Campus, profiled Bryan Robbins, a senior who happily turned to yoga 40 years ago and hasn't looked back since.

At 65, he is one of the nearly 20 percent of adults who practice the mind-body routine, according to a survey published by the Yoga Journal. Robbins is also the former head coach of SMU's diving program, where he has been teaching his students yoga since 1971.

He told the news source that with maturation, yoga for healthy aging becomes increasingly appealing to physically fit individuals like himself.

"As you age you have a tendency to [lose] muscle mass and flexibility, so the older you get, the more you have to keep moving," Robbins told the newspaper.

Studies have determined that yoga offers the elderly a number of benefits, from improved gait, balance and coordination to a decreased risk of heart disease and pulmonary problems.

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Nov 11

Try using yoga for healthy aging, improved mental clarity

Yoga retreats in Sedona are popular for good reason, and it isn't just because the mild climate, dry air and soaring desert vistas make it the perfect region for self healing. Many people enjoy the pilgrimage to Arizona and the ensuing stay in Sedona because of the positive effects it has on the body and the mind.

For one thing, plenty of enthusiasts use yoga for healthy aging, since the mind-body regimen is proven to slow the aging process. Yoga instructor Larry Payne told Yahoo! Sports that many of his protegees use the regimen to keep their skin firm and their muscles toned.

"My students call yoga a natural facelift," he told the news source. "It cleanses, relaxes and restores."

That's not all that yoga retreats in Sedona have to offer. Yoga and meditation experts Ed and Deb Shapiro wrote at the Huffington Post that the holistic healing routine is also an effective way to empty one's head of distracting thoughts and to get some mental clarity.

They noted that one of the perks of a good yoga retreat is that it involves "unthinking," so to speak, in which practitioners pursue peace and relaxation by opening their minds to the universe.

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Sep 11

Try using yoga for healthy skin, experts say

Research has shown again and again that nearly anyone can use yoga for health problems. This is one reason why 6.3 million Americans reported having been referred to a holistic health regimen by their physician or healthcare provider, according to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey. Whether you have joint aches, back problems, poor circulation or bad skin, there is a yoga regimen that's right for you.

"Wait a minute, bad skin?" you may be saying. That's right. According to numerous health experts, you can use yoga for healthy skin, no matter what your age.

Consider a presentation given by Dr. Flor Mayoral before the American Academy of Dermatology, in which she connected stress with poor dermal health. When you get stressed, your body cranks up its production of cortisol, the so-called stress hormone. Over time, this hormonal fluctuation can cause an increased production of oil in your sebaceous glands, potentially leading to acne breakouts, Mayoral said.

She added that stress may even be related to poor hair health (particularly, to baldness) and weaker nails.

An article published by Yahoo! Shine added that stress can also manifest itself as dry skin, redness, bags under the eyes, or wrinkles and fine lines. Fortunately, yoga can help undo or prevent some of these problems.

According to Yoga Online, one of the prime ways that the holistic regimen can help your skin is by increasing blood flow to the areas that need it most. For instance, yoga poses that put your head below your center of gravity allow blood to flow to your face, directing energy to wrinkles or dark circles beneath your eyes. Such poses can reduce the appearance of these blemishes.

Likewise, a regular yoga routine may be able to reduce stress, which in turn can lower the likelihood that your skin will break out in cortisol-related acne.

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Sep 11

People use yoga for healthy knees and injured knees alike

Maybe you've heard about it in the news, on TV or on the radio: doctors are increasingly encouraging arthritis patients to pursue complementary health treatments, like yoga for healthy knees and back. But can yoga do for knees what it does for the spine, muscles and organs?

According to the latest research, it can. Several studies have suggested the viability of using yoga for health problems like knee aches or joint immobility.

Think of it this way. Your knee is a complex intersection of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves and skin. The joint is critical for mobility, and any injury to your knee can disable you for months or years to come.

Modern living doesn't exactly make knee health any simpler, either. According to an article in the Yoga Journal, the activities we participate in today are harder on joints than those pursued by prehistoric humans.

 "We weren't designed to do the things we do with our bodies nowadays. The knee's engineering isn't the greatest," Steven Messier, a professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, explained to the source.

Hence, the older a knee-protecting exercise system, the better it may be. What could be older than yoga, a holistic health regimen that has existed for millennia?

A study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that individuals who used yoga to soothe osteoarthritis of the knee often experienced dramatic reduction in pain and improvements in range of motion.

Similar findings appeared in the journal International Quarterly of Community Health Education, suggesting that yoga-based knee therapy may increase the joint's ability to straighten and flex comfortably.

The authors added that yoga also seems to strengthen the knee joint, improving the chances that a person with an injured or arthritic knee may be able to stand on it more readily.

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