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Why yoga is the one thing your children should do this summerThe school summer holidays are a great time to reconnect and have fun with your children, but for many parents they also signal a long stretch of time to come up with a range of stimulating and healthy activities to fill the days.

A Yoga Therapist Shares The Truth About TraumaYoga therapist and psychologist Gail Parker, PhD, applies restorative practices in an innovative way to help people heal from racial wounds.

Teaching inclusive, safe and ethical yoga – Part 1: EmpowermentThis essay considers the ways in which our practices in yoga may erode empowerment, take away from agency, and undermine safety. It is hoped that by highlighting these areas that we can focus our efforts to evolve as a profession and be better able to serve our communities.

Contraindications of Pranayama as it applies to Trauma Survivors - #embodiedphilosophy“Many of our patients are barely aware of their breath, so learning to focus on the in and out breath, to notice whether the breath was fast or slow, and to count breaths in some poses can be a significant accomplishment.” – Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in …

Wake County elementary school principal hopes yoga pays off in classroomA Wake County elementary school principal is hoping yoga pays off in the classroom.

30% of Veterans Suffer From PTSD. Science Says Yoga Will Help Them HealAs many as 30% of service members suffer from PTSD. Some are turning to yoga to quiet their minds and heal their wounds.

Study: Yoga Breathing and Relaxation Lower Blood Pressure - UConn TodayYoga practice that emphasizes mental relaxation and breathing can have as much of a beneficial impact on high blood pressure as aerobic exercise, according to research by a UConn postdoc.

Austin Program Treating PTSD Combines Yoga, Horses And ArtUnique program combines cognitive and behavioral therapies with yoga, museum outings and excursions to a horse ranch to relieve turmoil.

Army veteran transforms his life with yogaHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - At his darkest point, Bryan Fant was addicted to vicodin, benzodiazepine, prozac, Xanax and various other powerful medications. All had been prescribed by the Veterans Administration to treat his debilitating pain, anxiety, depression and insomnia. Multiple deployments to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait had ravaged him physically. War had ravaged him emotionally. Fant lived with chronic pain. He underwent no less than seven surgeries to the neck, back and shoulders. He had spent thousands of hours in military helicopters wearing heavy gear. The jarring and jumping had taken a toll on his spine. At his lowest, his existence played out in a continuous reel of waking up in the morning, dragging himself to the mailbox to collect the new shipment of medications sent by the VA and then crawling to the couch in a drug-induced stupor. "I was miserable," Fant said. "I wasn't a functioning human being. I wasn't contributing to society in any way........I was an asshole...straight up not fit to be around. I was like a wounded animal that was in a corner so everyone that approached me in that corner, I wanted to strike out at them, which made me feel worse. Deep down I wanted that love and I wanted that affection and I wanted to heal but I was so wounded that I couldn't let that in. I just didn't understand." His grandfather had lived to 92, but at 41 Fant was certain he did not have 50 more years to live. "There was no way," he said. "I could see the writings on the wall." He woke up one day on the bedroom floor, his son and paramedics standing over him. Fant had had a seizure. He was rushed to the hospital where doctors determined that he was over-medicated, chronically stressed, fatigued and malnourished. He weighed 240 pounds, and had high blood...

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