The most popular and accessible form of yoga does not burn sufficient calories to qualify as an aerobic workout, although it does yield other significant benefits, a new study shows. The eight-week ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - It goes by various names: Water yoga, pool yoga, floating yoga. It combines yoga-type moves done on a floating mat. As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reports, it looks deceptively simple ...

Restorative yoga is a style of yoga that encourages physical, mental, and emotional relaxation. Appropriate for all levels, restorative yoga is practiced at a slow pace, focusing on long holds, ...

Practicing yoga can enhance a workout but it is an inadequate substitute for vigorous exercise such as aerobics, according to a study released on Thursday. Yoga offers less than half the physical ...

Side-stretching poses lengthen the muscles between the ribs and pelvis, including parts of the low back, and open the sides ...

Social media feeds filled with photos of fitness models twisted into poses requiring extreme strength, flexibility, and balance may leave you thinking, “Yoga is not for me.” Nadine Kelly, MD, founder ...

(HealthDay News) — For coronary heart disease patients with type 2 diabetes, combined Indian yoga and aerobic exercise is associated with greater improvement in heart disease risk factors than yoga or ...

In each yoga class she teaches, Sue Retka-Schill starts with seated meditation and focused breathing. She gently helps transition her students into a calm and peaceful place from which to start the ...

More than 54 million US adults have arthritis, with some cases being worse than others. For those that suffer with joint pain caused from arthritis, sometimes exercising can seem challenging or even ...

We’re going to assume that you--like so many of us--experience tightness in your hamstrings. Whether you exercise intensely or find yourself stuck at your computer for longer than you’d like, simply ...