Just saw this notice of yet another type of mega yoga studio.
Stroga might just offer the best cooldown, too. Post-workout, after changing in the women's or men's locker rooms, exercisers are welcome to head to the couch-filled lounge area for tea and fruit on the ground floor, or hang out on the “chill platform” next to the functional training area — there's a big TV and a ridiculously good view.
Add in Wi-fi, plus the promise of a roof deck in a few months, and people might never want to leave. (Although they'll have to when special events are scheduled. The place is already reserved for a June wedding.)
via Express Night Out | Fit | A House Divided: Strength Meets Yoga at Stroga.
My comment is that this type of place is great. But this has nothing to do with yoga.
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What a fascinating development. Sugar pills beat the compounded drugs in an increasing number of trials.
The upshot is fewer new medicines available to ailing patients and more financial woes for the beleaguered pharmaceutical industry. Last November, a new type of gene therapy for Parkinson’s disease, championed by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, was abruptly withdrawn from Phase II trials after unexpectedly tanking against placebo.
A stem-cell startup called Osiris Therapeutics got a drubbing on Wall Street in March, when it suspended trials of its pill for Crohn's disease, an intestinal ailment, citing an “unusually high” response to placebo. Two days later, Eli Lilly broke off testing of a much-touted new drug for schizophrenia when volunteers showed double the expected level of placebo response.It's not only trials of new drugs that are crossing the futility boundary. Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are the compounds that, in the late '90s, made Big Pharma more profitable than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, the FDA might not approve some of them. Two comprehensive analyses of antidepressant trials have uncovered a dramatic increase in placebo response since the 1980s.
One estimated that the so-called effect size a measure of statistical significance in placebo groups had nearly doubled over that time.It’s not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It’s as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger.
via Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why..
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via Symposium sheds light on benefits of Tai Chi (08/28/09).
The symposium, sponsored by the International Yang family Tai Chi Chuan Association, offered a chance to study with five of China’s top masters and the opportunity to learn more about the latest research on the health benefits of Tai Chi Chuan.
More than 400 Tai Chi masters, scholars and practitioners from across the world came to Vanderbilt this summer for a special symposium sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health.
It is a good thing to see, these symposiums, put on by actual programs at Universities. It has taken so long… traditional methods coming to the attention of the west many years ago. It is the only hope for real reform of out medical industry from one of slice and dice drug pushing doctors and other industry specialists, to a field oriented toward real healing, and the integration of all aspects of what it means to be a human being.
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Yogis in the US are voicing opposition to proposed measures that would require them to become certified to continue their practices throughout the country.
The government has proposed regulations on the yoga industry that would require those who teach to go through training programs to become certified instructors.
via Yogis Break Tradition, Fight Back Against Regulation – Health News – redOrbit.
Isn’t it amazing how today’s government officials are always on the look out to regulate. Would they be willing to propose the same type of certification for religious leaders? No Way! We have a thing called the Constitution, which includes a Bill of Rights that clearly tells the government goons to butt out.
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The Morning Star Zendo vision
Kennedy
Kennedy’s vision is for the Morning Star Zendo to foster continuously an environment for interfaith dialogue—to be a place where people of all religious varieties meet and respect one another’s traditions and points of view.
The spirit at the zendo reflects and builds upon Kennedy’s deep respect for and knowledge of Buddhism. It carries out the principles laid out in the Jesuit statement on mission and interreligious dialogue, which demands that Jesuits be not only familiar with the thought of men and women of other religious traditions, but be immersed with them in theological exchange and in a dialogue of life, action, and religious experience.
GW says:
This is a beautiful thing. At the deepest levels, Christianity and Buddhism are very closely related. You can see the relationship by substituting the word “ignorance” for “sin” or vice versa. Doing this, both traditions can understand one another. Also there is the Bodhisattva, who takes on the suffering of others, much the same as Christ, who takes upon himself the sin of others.
via Morning Star Zendo.
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The students report that they run faster, their core strength has increased, and that they really have fun! They also sheepishly tell their coaches and parents that their self-esteem and confidence has increased. “During our first season using Empower Yoga significantly increased our durability. We saw a significant decrease in injury and the kids seemed refreshed for their games. The pre-game warm-ups really helped. The kids enjoyed it so much we will be doing this again for Fall Conditioning!” Myron Lowry Head Basketball Coach, Providence High School. In this case, yoga is used as a secret weapon for High School Athletics!
The Galactic Wanderer says:
The fact that we don’t have yoga programs in every school in the nation is a disgrace. Every time it is the short-sighted, fundamentalist Christian who believes that this is some kind of philosophical and spiritual threat to the Christian faith of their children, and so they deprive everyone else of something that can completely change lives.
In one sense the fundamentalists are correct, because yoga will help to dispel illusory mental phenomenon leading to greater clarity. This is definitely a threat to any ideology that is simply obstructionist.
via The Secret Weapon: Yoga for Local High School Athletes.
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