Troubled Times

In our troubled times, with stress and anxiety over the financial downturn at an all time high, with political uncertainty, and plummeting investments, more people are turning to Yoga.

Watching the morning news, either at home or on the ride to work, is stressing enough. Then when you or a friends company starts downsizing, its only natural to try to seek solace from the turmoil in a practice that offers balance and peace of mind.

Hamsa Yogashala is such a calming place .. an oasis in a sea of uncertainty. Here, you can come, sit, be still, relax, and learn time proven techniques to soothe and heal the body and mind.

So many people have been hit hard by our current financial crisis,

and are honestly struggling to make the best of what

they have while coping with fear and uncertainty, anger,

frustration and loss. Which is why every class at Hamsa Yogashala teaches relaxation and deep breathing, so that students have an

opportunity to return to healing and calm centeredness.

Healing Yoga on Thursday is a weekly class for optimum health and well-being. Designed by Yogini Valarie, Healing Yoga is a weekly wellness program that detoxifies and cleanses the body, helping it return to a state of health and vitality.

Its always darkest before the dawn, and right now, its very dark. The demands of the world are becoming so intense that it is only natural - and self-preserving - to seek an island of inner peace and learning practices that help us with our fear and worry.

Yoga and Meditation are the best body and mind healing practices in the world. Combined, they help us restore balance, release stress and awaken the body's innate healing responce.

Om Peace!
Yogini Valarie Devi

Yoga News : Cancer

Designer backs yoga project at US hospital cancer ward
October 30th, 2008 - 10:27 pm

New York, Oct 30 (IANS) Famed fashion designer Donna Karan has sponsored a major project at a premier hospital here to clinically prove that yoga, meditation and aromatherapy can enhance regimens of chemotherapy and radiation in treating cancer.

Karan, founder of the DKNY line of clothing and a yoga enthusiast, has donated $850,000, through her Urban Zen Foundation, for a year-long experiment combining Eastern and Western healing methods at the Beth Israel Medical Centre in Manhattan.

Overseen by Karan’s yoga masters, Rodney and Colleen Saidman Yee, 15 yoga teachers will be sent to the hospital’s cancer ward starting January next to work with non-terminal patients, and nurses will be trained in relaxation techniques, the New York Times reported Thursday.

Karan hopes to prove that the yoga and meditation regime can reduce classic symptoms of cancer and its treatment, like pain, nausea and anxiety and serve as a model for replication elsewhere.

Noting that a third of Americans seek alternative treatments, Beth Israel chief executive David Shulkin said: “To make care accessible to these third of Americans, we’re trying to embrace care that makes them more comfortable.”

Karan traces her commitment to integrative medicine to what she saw as the limited treatment of her sculptor husband and business partner, Stephan Weiss, who died of lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 62, and of Lynn Kohlman, a photographer, model and DKNY fashion director who died of brain and lung cancer in September.

Karan, who practises yoga daily, believes yoga works. “Now we have to prove it in the clinical setting,” she was quoted as saying by the Times.
She chose Beth Israel because it is among the handful of hospitals nationwide with full-fledged integrative medicine departments.
It has also experimented with integrating mainstream and alternative therapies for eight years.

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/designer-backs-yoga-project-at-us-hospital-cancer-ward_100113265.html