Yoga After Heart Surgery for Stent Placement

by Baxter Back in the late 60s and early 70s, a new surgical treatment for blocked heart blood vessels was being perfected. Known as coronary artery bypass grafting, it allowed doctors to work around the heart’s own blood vessels that supply the muscle of the heart with oxygen and nutrition when they became dangerously plugged with plaque buildup. Patients that previously would have, most likely, suffered severe or life-ending heart attacks...

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Heart Health and Yoga: An Overview

by NinaThe Heart by Henri Matisse*After three years of blogging, even I, the Editor-in-Chief, can't remember everything that’s on our blog. So because someone close to me has developed heart disease and I want to be able to help him, I’ve been—hahaha—reading through my own blog today. At the same time that I’m trying to see which topics we’ve covered so far (nothing on stents that I can see—paging Dr. Baxter Bell!), I’m also trying to get up...

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Friday Q&A: Practicing to Manage Stress

Q: Following the stressful weeks you have just been through, what kind of yoga practice are you craving and what will you include in your home practice to meet that desire?A: After many, many years of practicing on my own, I do develop specific cravings for yoga poses, depending both on my emotional and physical state. In my case, stress affects me in a very distinctive way: I become hyper, a little manic, and I have a hard time sleeping. So what...

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Attachment (Raga), Depression, and Plan Z

by NinaPlan EDid you read my recent post about attachment Attachment (Raga) to Our Ideas About Ourselves? Because I’m starting to feel I’m going to be exploring this topic for some time. For one thing, just a couple of days someone close to me found out that he has heart disease, and I know this means he’s going to have to let go of some of his plans/dreams for his future. I don’t know how this is going to play out, but I know it will be painful...

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Savasana: Silent or Not?

by BaxterOne of our readers recently sent us this topic idea for a post:I am usually ready to cry in class when the teacher insists on talking throughout Savasana. I had one class where the teacher literally droned about how important silence was for >10 minutes. If silence was so important, why couldn’t she have given us some?There is more to this question than meets the eye, or the ear in this case! Some of the challenge is that modern Savasana...

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Some Random Thoughts On Protein Supplements. By Veeraj Goyaram

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