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Does Meditation Inhibit Creativity?
A student sent me an interesting article from the New York Times recently about the benefits—and costs—of meditation. The article discussed several meditation studies. In the first, Amishi Jha, the...
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Three Tips for Practicing Mindfulness in a Multitasking Workplace
A note from Tracy: Publicists send me multiple blind submissions for blog articles every week, and for the most part, I review and ignore them. But this one caught my eye. Meditation and yoga helped...
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Yoga for Bipolar Disorder—Research Horizons
The results of a recent study on the benefits and risks of Hatha yoga for individuals with bipolar disorder were interesting to me, but not surprising. The study (which was originally published in the...
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Yoga for Health Fact Sheet and Yoga Research
I haven’t written much about yoga research lately, mainly because I’ve been heads-down in the book launch events for my second novel. But recently I stumbled across a fact sheet from the National...
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Research Proves It! Viniyoga Helps Kick Eating Disorders
The study discussed in this article by Yoga Dork has special meaning to me, as I was involved in its design. One of our amazing Whole Life Yoga teachers, Liziah Woodruff, was one of the teachers! The...
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Research on Viniyoga for Cystic Fibrosis
I co-authored a research paper! The paper, “Yoga as a Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis: A Pilot Study,” was published in the November, 2015 issue of Global Advances in...
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Research Proves It: Meditation Strengthens Your Brain
Yet another research study proves the benefits of meditation. Meditation research is hardly unusual. This study, however, was the first to prove that meditation actually increases brain density—also...
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Research Proves It! Yoga Improves Bone Density
I became interested in methods to build bone health in my early thirties. Not coincidentally, it was the same day my first DEXA scan showed that I already had osteoporosis, likely due to excessively...
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Research Proves It: Yoga Works to Reduce Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome!
I love learning about new research into the benefits of a consistent yoga practice, so I was delighted when a Whole Life Yoga teacher training graduate (and practicing Medical Doctor) sent me an...
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Research Proves It: Yoga Is Good for Your Heart!
Those of us who practice yoga know first-hand its wide-ranging benefits: from increased mindfulness, to decreased stress, to reduction in pain, to weight loss. Western medical research is finally...
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