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Yoga for Healing and Wellness

Only your doctor can give you advice on your medical condition, but yoga has been known to benefit a large number of ailments, both minor and major. These sites are meant as information only - check them out, take the suggestions to your health care provider, and see how yoga can enhance your health and sense of well-being.

The Benefits of Yoga

Here's a look at how yoga's combination of poses, deep breathing, and meditation might enhance your health.

Heal Back and Neck Pain with Yoga Exercise

This article is a primer for using yoga to relieve back pain.

Yoga and Thyroid Disease

About.com's own Thyroid Disease expert, Mary Shomon, is a yoga advocate and here she explains why.

Skiing and Yoga

Karen Dalury, founder of Killington Yoga, has taught skiing, coached ski racers, practiced yoga for 30 years, and has 10 years experience teaching various yoga disciplines.

Yoga for Multiple Sclerosis

This article, written by Roger Nolan (advanced teacher of therapeutic yoga), explains how yoga can be used for the management of MS.

Yoga for Active Individuals

Athletes, dancers and martial artists find that yoga helps develop focus for their own discipline. It also helps to prevent injuries.

Yoga for HIV/AIDS

Yoga instruction for those with HIV/AIDS. Learn about free classes offered by this Colorado non-profit organization.

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