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Yoga For Your Dosha

Ayurveda talks about the three subtle energies, called doshas, which play an important role in human health. These energies are Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Each dosha is a combination of two natural elements: Vata dosha is made of space and air, Pitta dosha is... Read >

Your Brain And Meditation

Studies have shown the beneficial effects of meditation on our health and our brain. There are many types of meditation and invariably all of them have positive effects. Understanding how meditation affects the brain, and, by extension, human behavior,... Read >

Expert Supervision Must For Correct Yoga Practice

Yoga is a science of healing. People around the world are turning to yoga because of its versatile effects on human body, mind and soul. Yoga is fast emerging as a new stream of alternative therapy and many people are enjoying its health benefits. Yogi... Read >

Yoga For Seniors

Being a science of recuperation and rehabilitation, yoga manages the whole being by making your body fit and healthy, your mind tranquil and bringing relaxation to both body and mind. Yoga plays an important role in preventing and controlling many old age... Read >

Yoga For Health And Fitness

Health is not merely absence of any disease but a state of complete physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Unfortunately, life has become so sedentary today that it has become a dream for most people to attain complete health and fitness. Daily new dis... Read >

Change The Only Constant

While flicking through channels on the telly today, I happened to stop at an advertisement that a lot of us now fondly identify with childhood memories – that of Nestle Maggi noodles. As the enchanting “maggi maggi maggi" jingle played itself out, I reali... Read >

Hygiene Seriously

With the Commonwealth Games, India hoped to put on a spectacular show of display of its economic prowess and reaffirm its age-old repute as the most hospitable of nations. Instead, the event has gone on to become an ugly spectacle of India’s corrupt babud... Read >

Eating Breakfast To Lose Weight

“Eat breakfast to lose weight" is the modern mantra for quick weight loss. Many health practitioners, magazines and newspaper articles are motivating people to kick start their day with a good morning meal to lose weight. Sometimes it looks like an overus... Read >

Wellness: The Sunrise Industry

Wellness, as first introduced by the physician Halbert Dunn in a 1961 publication called “High Level Wellness", was described as “a lifestyle approach for pursuing elevated states of physical and psychological well-being". In a retardation of the original... Read >

Ayurvedic Healing Foods

In the holistic science of Ayurveda, food has been praised as the best entity among all life-sustaining factors. Ayurveda has identified six different tastes called rasa and has described their health benefits on judicious intake as well as their harms o... Read >

Doing better, feeling worse

Even as we spend the maximum monies that have ever been set aside for healthcare yet, the cry for cheaper, mass-available and even more technologically advanced medical facilities is at its loudest. I recently read a work of renowned American political s... Read >

India and ancient health wisdom

To me, health is a serious issue and being able to maintain good health at most times is half the battle won against the constantly deteriorating quality of our lives today. In one of my previous posts, I spoke of all our modern medical facilities and... Read >

Healthcare

The enthusiasm of the young for the World Wide Web and their profuse belief in technology never ceases to amaze me. The vigour with which the youth of today take to information on the internet and its ease of delivery is something I don’t think older gene... Read >

Religion and yoga

A religious rights leader in the US recently sparked off a debate with his comments on the inappropriateness of Yoga for those of the Christian faith. Arguments have since flown fast and thick on all sides over the linking of Yoga with specific religions.... Read >