Latest yoga and wellness news
The demand for certified mindfulness teachers is accelerating at a pace that few in the wellness industry predicted. A new industry forecast covering 2026 through 2030 projects that corporate wellness programs, healthcare systems, and educational institutions will drive unprecedented growth in mindfulness teaching roles — and yoga practitioners with meditation training are uniquely positioned to … Read more
A landmark randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Psychiatry has found that yoga can cut the severe opioid withdrawal period nearly in half when combined with standard medical care. The study, conducted at India’s National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences and highlighted by Harvard researchers, offers a promising new tool in the global fight … Read more
In a landmark recognition of yoga’s growing role in global preventive healthcare, the World Health Organization has re-designated India’s Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY) as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine (Yoga) for the period 2025 to 2029. The designation makes the New Delhi-based institute the formal global hub for evidence-based yoga … Read more
Something is shifting in how the medical and wellness communities talk about yoga. Increasingly, researchers, clinicians, and health systems are using a new phrase to describe its effects: nervous system medicine. It’s a designation that moves yoga beyond the realm of fitness and flexibility and into the territory of clinical neuroscience — and the evidence … Read more
A series of landmark studies from UCLA Health has delivered some of the most compelling neuroscientific evidence yet for yoga’s brain-protective effects: regular Kundalini yoga practice not only slows cognitive decline in older women at risk for Alzheimer’s disease — it appears to physically prevent the brain shrinkage that marks the disease’s earliest stages. Editor’s … Read more