“Yoga offers practical tools to short-circuit the stress reflex. Documented benefits include a reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, cholesterol and blood sugar.” Dr Herbert Benson (Harvard Medical School) who states that stress is the cause of 60 to 90% of doctor visits. The relaxation response also boosts the immune system.

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No age barriers - start at anytime and there is no retirement age.

Highest Overall satisfaction score (82%) in a survey of 10 000 UK magazine readers on complementary healing - beating Reflexology, Massage Therapy, Osteopathy, Chiropractic and Reiki.

UK Editor of Men's Health Magazine asked a journalist to test 20 complementary health regimens and identify the most effective “stress buster”. Yoga won.

According to the American Journal of Cardiology - 80% of patients eligible for bypass avoid surgery by participating in yoga - part of the post-heart-attack programme at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in LA.

New York Presbyterian offers all heart patients undergoing cardiac procedures yoga during recovery.

Director of the Yoga Therapy Centre at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital says GP’s are increasingly advising patients of the benefits of yoga in coping with stress.

Research shows that it teaches alignment that burns twice the kilojoules we normally use.

US study of remedies for backache (orthodox & alternative) - yoga was most effective.

Pennsylvania (USA) study shows that it significantly increases range of motion, decreases pain and tenderness in people with osteo-arthritis.

‘I have found Ashtanga Yoga to be the most complete and balanced routine of physical training for the development of stamina, strength, and flexibility. Further, its application as a therapeutic tool in the treatment and recovery from sports related injury is unsurpassed’

Dr R. Calvo, MS, MD, President – Texas Centre for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery