Category Archives: Yoga

The average retirement age in Australia is 63.8, but most people live 20 or more years after 65. What ten more healthy working years could be worth, how Australia compares with the UK and OECD, and where yoga fits.

In a review of 23 yoga studies, 22 found some weight loss and 12 found a loss that matters for health. What made the difference, why calm and mindful eating matter more than calories, and five simple mindful eating habits.

In large studies, long-term stress and poor sleep are linked with more heart disease and an earlier death. Here is what the evidence says, how much sleep you need, and where yoga fits.

Four everyday habits, 78% lower risk of chronic disease in one study of 23,153 adults. What three big studies found about healthy lifestyle habits, what they can’t tell us, and where yoga fits.

Mindfulness grew up beside yoga. So research on mindfulness for stress, anxiety, sleep and pain also points to yoga and pranayama. Here is the story, from Patanjali and Mr Iyengar to today’s trials.

Poor sleep is one of the most common migraine triggers. For Perth and regional WA: what the breathing trials found, what Mr Iyengar suggested, and live online Iyengar yoga at 7am WA time, a gap that never changes.

Screen days, a forward head and stress bring on the afternoon headache for many Brisbane and Gold Coast workers. What Mr Iyengar taught for eye strain, three desk moves, and live online classes on Queensland time.

No Iyengar yoga class near you in Townsville or Cairns? Join one live from Darwin, 30 minutes behind Queensland time all year, and learn the forehead rest for migraine on your own chair and blankets at home.

Hot days bring more headaches, and so does going short of water. Here is what the research says about heat, dehydration and Darwin’s wet season, and the quiet, head-supported yoga we teach at Woolner and Coolalinga.

The most common migraine triggers are stress, missed meals, the weather and poor sleep. Here is what the research says, and how regular yoga steadies the nervous system those triggers act on, in Darwin or LIVE online.

What does yoga do for men? Geeta Iyengar taught that men need restful poses as much as women: forward bends, lying poses and careful inversions every week.

How to quiet the mind, from Geeta Iyengar’s 2009 pranayama classes in Australia: the small mind and the vast mind, the pauses in the breath, and Savasana as practice. Breath meditation classes in Darwin and LIVE online.