How much can you expect from yoga in periods of high stress and anxiety? Yoga is often recommended as a stress relief strategy, but how much can you expect from it and how does it actually work? Let’s explore the benefits yoga can bring to help with stress and anxiety. What is stress? Stress is …
Can a headstand be pain-free? A headstand (also known as Shirshasana) is an inversion where the practitioner is balancing on their head. A common question to those new to the idea is: Is that supposed to hurt? No, a headstand can be pain-free! Why would a pose practiced over a millennia, by people of different …
The popularity of cold exposure has increased since 2017 in continental Europe, US & Australia through the work of Wim Hof. Whether it is through cryotherapy or cold water immersion more and more people practice and hashtag: #coldexposure. Cold therapy has its roots back in South East Asian yogic traditions and Eastern European-Scandinavian cultures. In …
The way you breathe during a yoga class is affected by many parameters including : • our level of experience • the style of yoga • our familiarity with the sequence • how tense you are on the day • the phase of the menstrual cycle If you have been practicing yoga for a …
Vitiligo is an autoimmune condition and as such certain dietary protocols as well as supplements can be used to support the immune system for those that experience the characteristic skin depigmentation. The scope of this article however is to discuss the supplements that have been shown in clinical trials to help the repigmentation of the …
The only way you can get a definite YES or a NO for Celiac Disease (CD) is by doing an intestinal biopsy. As this is an invasive and expensive procedure, many prefer measuring serum antibodies as an initial screening process. When someone decides to test for antibodies against gluten it is necessary to keep in …