It can. Sleep largely depends on lowering your core body temperature, and vigorous exercise has the opposite effect. In a healthy sleep pattern, your body temperature drops when the sun sets, reaches its lowest point just before dawn, and starts to elevate at sunrise. But an after-dark high energy yoga ...

For starters, remember that yoga can help alleviate the aches and pains that tend to pop up when you’re on the road. Any chance you get, focus on lengthening the lumbar spine, which gets compressed after hours spent sitting slumped on an airplane or in a car, a posture that ...

A recent study done on improving quality of life in cancer patients showed yoga leads to decreased stress, reduced side effects, increased natural killer cell counts and increased pain threshold.A second study on the effect of yoga therapy for metastatic breast cancer patients and DNA repair mechanism showed significant decrease ...

Going in for a medical procedure? Listening to music or a recorded meditation during your treatment may reduce related pain, anxiety, and fatigue, according to scientists with the Duke Cancer Institute in Durham, North Carolina. They evaluated 121 women undergoing breast-cancer biopsies who listened to music (their choice of instrumental ...

50 Percent !! That’s how much range of motion some joints lose as we age. Good thing your flexibility enhancing yoga practice tops your to-do list. Source: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Picture:Yoga Journal This article was first published in the print edition of Yoga Journal Singapore which is now Yogahood Online

Here’s another reason to thank yoga (and your mother’s nagging) for helping you to sit up straight: your good posture will put you in a more positive head space. When you slump, your brain takes almost twice as long—and has to work significantly harder—to access positive memories than when you ...

Dark chocolate has practically reached health-food status these days, with numerous studies demonstrating its nutritional benefits—including a new one published in the journal, Appetite that found you may be able to boost cognitive function by regularly giving in to your craving. Researchers analyzed study participants over a 3o-year period and found that ...

The next time you feel your productivity and mood slipping at work, try a little babbling-brook therapy: Listening to natural sounds like flowing water significantly improved employees’ productivity and mood compared to sitting in silence, according to a study presented at an Acoustical Society of America meeting. “Complete silence isn’t the ...

A whopping 40 percent of food goes to waste in the United States, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. This means that every resource used to produce that food—like water, land, and labor—is also discarded. Plus, when that food sits in landfills, it emits methane, which has been linked ...

Home should be a sanctuary, but according to the Environmental Protection Agency, the air within most houses (and office buildings) can be more polluted than the air outside in even the largest, most industrialized cities. The culprit: volatile organic compounds like formaldehyde, which are offgassed from plastics, upholstery, furniture, and ...

Social media can help us feel more connected and content. (Admit it: You’ve experienced a pick-me-up after posting a cool Tree Pose shot to Instagram!) Yet if you’re scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the like more than a few times a day, it may actually dampen your mood—and keep ...