Celebrate American Heart Month by reducing your heart stress with yoga

BCBSKS disease management and wellness nurse Julie Waters, RN, BSN, MSEd, CCP, explains how yoga can help relieve stress and make a positive impact on the health of your heart. Celebrate American Heart Month by dialing down your stress level! Stress can cause your heart to beat faster and your blood pressure to rise, increasing the work of your heart and your risk for heart disease. … Continue reading Celebrate American Heart Month by reducing your heart stress with yoga

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A beginner’s guide to yoga flow

Follow this super simple, yet very beneficial yoga flow known as Sun Salute A, or Surya Namaskar A in Sanskrit*.  The poses of Sun Salute A lengthen and strengthen many of your main muscles, relax the mind, and provide numerous other health benefits. Sun Salute A can be completed on its own, or incorporated into additional poses to elongate your practice. Continue reading “A beginner’s guide to yoga flow”