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Medicare covers yoga for heart disease
“Hospitals can now bill Medicare for their patient’s yoga & group discussion sessions because the Ornish program is an approved intensive cardiac rehab program. There are four components to the program: nutrition, stress management, moderate exercise and group support.”
You can see, over and over, people seeing rises in sex hormones — particularly in testosterone — brain waves getting zipped up in the same way that lovers’ brains look when they’re in deep pleasure. There have been beautiful studies that show even fast breathing can produce strong states of sexual arousal. And just recently, there were studies in India where they looked at married couples who took up yoga and surveyed them before and after. Across the board, it’s improvement in desire, arousal, orgasm, overall satisfaction. Men have better erections. Women feel more emotional closeness with partners. It definitely does lots of good stuff.
How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body
Good article from the NY Times about the ramifications of yoga when it is practiced with ego and without attention and care to self.
Ahimsa, Vegetarianism & Non-judgment
“Who cares if you’re a vegetarian, if you’re a judgmental prick?” written by an old yoga teacher and friend, Sachie Alessio Heath, and published on Recoveringyogi.com.
Radical Consciousness: Waking Up to the Shadow-Selves
By Sally Kempton, who I’ve had the pleasure of studying with on more than one occasion; I find her to be an amazing source of insight and revelation.
(via gloucesterjournal)
Art of Attention: From Complaint to Gratitude
“Gratitude- the most effective healing state”
