healing with yoga

Yes, I do believe you can cure certain pains and things like that with the help of yoga, back pains etc. for instance. And it also makes you more flexible of course, which also helps many conditions.

Yoga can indeed help many chronic illnesses. It doesn't always cure the problem, but it greatly helps. It can help fibromyalgia, arthritis, and so many more. It's important to start slow if you are a beginner. There are many DVDs one can buy that show people how to do yoga. Once a person is familiar with beginner's yoga, they can move up to more intricate work, and thus the benefits will be greater as well.

hi virashri yes Yoga can help in alleviating symptoms in many chronic diseases like: 1.Heart health: Heart disease patients who did Yoga for six weeks showed significant increase in artery, resulting in lower blood pressure and increased heart output. 2.Chronic back pain: Chronic lower-back sufferers experienced less pain after practising Yoga twice a week for six months. 3. Asthma and other pulmonary disorders: Practising Yoga for 2-3 hours a week, for ten weeks, helps in reduced symptoms of asthma and other chronic pulmonary disorders. 4. Binge eating: Binge eaters who participated in 10-week Yoga therapy programme showed significant reduction of bingeing episode per month and were also able to manage stress more effectively. 5. Migraine and other headaches: Practising Yoga daily for about four months leads to significant reduction in incidences of headaches due to migraine and tension. 6. Metabolic disorders: People at high risk of developing diabetes, can lower their risk factor for the disease after doing Yoga for three months. Yoga is well known as a stress reducer, especially when combined with meditation and pranayama. Recent studies now show that Yoga can help in treating and preventing a number of ailments, ranging from back pain to Diabetes. Taking a single Yoga class can help you lower levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.