With its emphasis on breathing practices and meditation - both of which help calm and center the mind - it's hardly surprising that yoga also brings mental benefits, such as reduced anxiety and depression. What may be more surprising is that it actually makes your brain work better. Yoga for your Brain A sharper brain When you lift weights, your muscles get stronger and bigger. When you do yoga, your brain cells develop new connections, and changes occur in brain structure as

About 54 million Americans are living with osteoporosis or low bone mass, and most don’t know it until a fracture happens. The condition progresses silently. No pain, no warning signs, just bones that are quietly becoming more fragile with every passing year. In this Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy and Meditation podcast episode, Brandt Passalacqua, founder of Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy, speaks with Marta Shedletsky, C-IAYT, a Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapist specializing in

Yoga develops inner awareness. It focuses your attention on your body's abilities at the present moment. It helps develop breath and strength of mind and body. It's not about physical appearance. Yoga studios typically don't have mirrors. This is so people can focus their awareness inward rather than how a pose — or the people around them — looks. Surveys have found that those who practiced yoga were more aware of their bodies than people who didn't practice yoga. They were a