STAY YOUNG WITH YOGA

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine with Spa Moksha is offering a day-long workshop in Yoga Therapy and Yoga Asanas.  Yoga exercises focus on the health of the spine, its strength and flexibility.  The body is as young as it is flexible.  By maintaining the spine's flexibility and strength through exercises, circulation is increased and the nerves are ensured their supply of nutrients and oxygen.  The Asanas also affect the internal organs and endocrine system (glands and hormones).

Benefits of the Workshop

• Increased Flexibility
• Eased back, joint and muscle pain
• Reduced Stiffness
• Improved strength
• Less stress and Anxiety
• Less Depression
• Relaxed mind
• Sharpened focus and body awareness.

If you continuously and sincerely follow the program discussed in this workshop, you will be able to prevent and/or heal  many psychosomatic and psychoneuroimmunological functional diseases. You will feel stronger, energetic and will share more happiness, love and friendship.

Can Yoga Really Make a Difference

• Two small studies published in the February 2000 issue of the journal Rheumatic Diseases Clinics of North America found that yoga helps with pain associated with osteoarthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome.

• A study published in the April 2000 issue of  Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology showed that yoga may be as effective as drug therapy in controlling hypertension.

• A second study in the same journal documented that a four month yoga regimen significantly increased feelings of good health,  as rated by standardized  "Subjective Well Being Inventory."

• A Stanford University review of the research on complementary treatments found that mind-body techniques including yoga were efficacious primarily as complementary treatments of musculoskeletal disease and related disorders.

• Other studies, including one at the Roosevelt University Stress Institute in Chicago, have found that yoga stretches reduce physical stress while increasing physical relaxation.