Benefits of Meditation

Prolonged states of stress cause damage to every part of the body. Meditation is an antidote to stress because it effects the body in the exact opposite way that stress does. It restores the body to a calm state, helping the body to repair itself, and preventing new damage resulting from the physical effects of […]

Health benefits of yoga

Yoga is considered a form of low-impact exercise and stress-reduction, and is estimated to be practiced by 20 million people in the US alone.  This burgeoning interest among Westerners happens to be why so much human clinical research has now been performed on yoga.  In 1968 seven studies were published on yoga. This year, there […]