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Yoga for Illness and Wellness

The life-enhancing practice of yoga has been known to benefit both major and minor illnesses. These sites cover both major and minor health problems, and explain how yoga has helped sufferers feel better.

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Can Yoga Banish the Blues?
Nearly any form of exercise can help relieve a blue mood, but Yoga's mind-body-spirit connection has some extra added benefits for people who have temporarily lost their perspective on life.

Yoga's Rx for RSI
Are you concerned about repetitive strain injuries? Do you already have one, such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Yoga's wisdom can offer help and relief.

Baby Get Back! Park One
The back especially benefits from practicing Yoga. This two-part series focuses on postures for the back and spine - Part One is for those with weaker backs.

PMS Yoga - for Her, and for Him
PMS can cause havoc for many women, not to mention the men in their lives. Yoga has the solution for them both.

Why Yoga? Why Not? Relax with gentle yoga exercises
If you suffer from insomnia - whether it be occasional or chronic - Yoga may help. Florence Cardinal, About's Sleep Disorders Guide explains how.

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Thyroid Disease
About.com's own Thyroid Disease expert, Mary Shomon, is a yoga advocate and here she explains why.

Yoga Therapeutics
This section of Yogamedicine.com offers suggestions, exercises and Asanas for over 40 different ailments, from arthritis to varicose veins.

Hypertension
There is a correlation between stress and hypertension. This page offers some great yoga movement and breathing exercises to alleviate stress.

Heart Disease
Nowadays coronary heart disease is often treated by a total lifestyle change which includes diet, stress reduction and a fitness program. Yoga fits in very well with this approach and this article is about one Yoga Institute's studies.

Yoga Tutorials
Dr. Dean Ornish offers these simple yoga tutorials via either RealPlayer or Windows Media for those who feel stressed-out or disconnected.

Arthritis
Yoga helps prevent stiff joints and promotes muscle tone and flexibility - all of which can be helpful to those who suffer from arthritis. The American Yoga Association offers some easy yoga exercises here.

HIV/AIDS
Yoga's restorative qualities can bring relief to those living with HIV and AIDS. The Yoga Group in Colorado not only provides free yoga classes to those afflicted with HIV and AIDS, their site offers a wealth of information on the subject.

AIDS and Cancer
Here is a Yoga program, including asanas, breathing and meditation, to help relieve the stress of suffering through cancer or AIDS.

Multiple Sclerosis
This article, written by an advanced teacher of therapeutic yoga, explains how he uses yoga for the management of MS.

Chronic Pain
Yoga instructor Christopher Ken Baxter has a compassionate and thorough mind/body/soul approach to yoga that helped relieve a student's chronic pain. He explains his approach here.

Yoga and Breathing Exercises for Asthma
It only makes sense that yoga breathing might have benefits for those with asthma. Here is an article concerning some research on the subject.

Yoga Facials
Okay, so you're not really sick but your face is drawn and tense. Give yourself a yoga facial and relax all those hard-working little muscles!

Exercise and Yoga: Diabetes
In addition to proving the benefits of Yoga and other forms of exercise for diabetics, this page offers a list of recommendations and restrictions to follow.

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