yogajala Staff Plavini pranayama is hatha yoga’s strangest breath: instead of inhaling, the practitioner swallows air into the stomach. Learn its origins, technique, anatomy, and modern safety considerations.
A 12-week AIIMS New Delhi yoga trial in Alzheimer’s patients reported sharp drops in amyloid-beta-40, phosphorylated tau and inflammation markers, plus rising BDNF — extending earlier UCLA findings.
Yoga Sutra 1.3 — tada drashtuh svarupe avasthanam — defines the destination of all yoga: the seer abiding in its own true nature. A complete explainer with word-by-word breakdown and practical implications.
At the 51st Oncology Nursing Society Congress, nurses flagged a stubborn gap: yoga is a Category 1 intervention for cancer-related fatigue, yet most patients have no idea their cancer center offers it for free.
Patanjali opens the Yoga Sutras with four Sanskrit words that frame everything that follows. Here is what atha yoga anushasanam really means, why each word was chosen, and how Sutra 1.1 sets up the rest of the text.