Yoga Update

Yoga therapy becoming more mainstream in US.
HealthDay (1/24, Thompson) reports, "Yoga may be becoming more of a mainstream approach to Americans' health woes." A growing body of "scientific evidence is building the case that the spiritual balance created by yoga provides proven health benefits." Research has found that yoga can "help people who are dealing with health problems as wide-ranging as back pain, chronic headaches, sleeplessness, obesity, neck aches, upset stomach, anxiety, depression and high blood pressure," said Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate neuroscientist in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. The health benefits mainly stem from yoga's focus on "the connection between mind and body," Khalsa said.