Regardless where you live in the world, there is no hiding from the fact that many people’s lives are going to be undergoing a great deal of change in the coming months – if they haven’t already. The World Health Organisation recently declared COVID-19 a…
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What is MindfulMarch? LoveYourBrain is a nonprofit that believes yoga, mindfulness, and community are essential to transforming the wellbeing of people affected by brain injury. That’s why they pioneered their Yoga and Retreat programs – offered across North America – to empower the TBI community…
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So, it’s THAT time of year again. The cards are out, flowers and chocolates in the shops, and the candlelit tables are all booked up weeks in advance. With good reason, many of us find it all rather superficial and insincere. Perhaps some of us…
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Law enforcement, school teachers and healthcare providers are some occupations that deal with chronic stress, health issues due to sleep disturbances and high employee turnover. “Long-Term Improvements in Psychological Health Following a Yoga-Based Program for Professionals” looked at how yoga could be used to reduce…
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For many of us, the sedentary nature of our work represents a significant challenge in the maintenance of our wellbeing. A 2018 survey found that the majority (81 per cent) of UK office workers spend between four and nine hours each day sitting at their…
Read More A new research report – “Decoding the development of the human hippocampus” – provides a look into the cell types, molecular features and transcriptional regulation of a developing human hippocampus. It also illustrates spatially specific gene expression in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. This data…
Read More Dopamine fasting is the latest wellness trend coming out of Silicon Valley. Instead of your standard digital detox, they are recommending to withdraw from all things pleasurable for a specific time to “reset” the brain to appreciate the simple things in life. To read the…
Read More Regular long-term yoga-meditation practitioners saw significant differences in body mass index, systolic blood pressure and plasma levels of stress and inflammatory markers verse short-term meditators and a healthy control group. To read the full study, click here: Physiological persona differences based on stress and inflammation…
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Our exceptional yoga therapists go forward in their careers via many different paths, and we are always keen to check in on their progress. One of our graduates, Shweta Panchal, is involved in a number of wellbeing organisations, in addition to conducting research, and practicing yoga…
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Pregnancy and childbirth is a beautiful experience for many but, for some mothers, it can also be a period of intense personal and emotional discomfort. Yoga and Yoga Therapy are often used to ease the anxiety and physical complications surrounding pregnancy and childbirth; but there…
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As a lifelong migranaut (an often-used term for the experiencer of frequent and incessant migraine debilitation) the practice of yoga came to me in an intriguing way. No, I wasn’t hit by a low flying copy of the complete works of Patanjali. Let me explain….
Read MoreAlzheimer’s UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, launched Yoga for Alzheimer’s early last year (2016), an initiative encouraging people to get into their favourite yoga positions while raising money to help find treatments for dementia, which affects 850,000 people nationwide. Indeed, the benefits of…
Read Moreby Nicole Schnackenberg www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The psychological/emotional underpinnings and ramifications of suffering from various skin conditions have only recently been given serious consideration in the scientific literature. This is despite the fact that emotional correlations with dermatological conditions such as eczema and psoriasis were made more…
Read MoreSuicide is the intentional ending of one’s own life. It is a serious and growing problem. The highest suicide rate in the UK is for men aged 45-49. Whilst male suicide rates have decreased slightly in the past couple of years, female suicide rates have…
Read MoreAccording to a recent 2016 survey, one-in-ten people in the US are currently practising yoga, which is double the amount of just a few years ago. Yoga is becoming increasingly popular across modern, Western society whilst concurrently being increasingly subjected to rigorous scientific trials. Yoga…
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