Caren Osser

Healing stress

Jefferson University Memorial Day workshops, relating to so many holistic topics from A to Z, inspired the dedicated throughout the weekend with inspirational and motivational topics discussed in many rooms. Jefferson's Yoga department is focused and...

Stretch your back and spine

Yoga is the perfect exercise for your spine, allowing it to move as it was intended to move. If you have arthritis of any kind, yoga can help. Perhaps you're reluctant about continuing your yoga practice...

Asthma and yoga

Asthma triggers can be inhaled irritants such as smoke, airborne chemicals, and dust. Animal dander, dust mites, mold, and pollen add up to becoming triggers for asthma, as does, viral respiratory infections, acid reflux, emotional stress, and weather changes...

Baby-boomers and sports

Babyboomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are coming into their own, expectedly or unexpectedly. Many have planned well and are healthy and prosperous; however, recent studies show us that so many are ill, depressed, financially unstable, and there are...

Deep breathing

Those attending the yoga workshop in Phoenixville, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, were ready to make a new start. Everybody took a seat, closed their eyes, and was told to breathe normally through the nose. It pays to...

A community of children

Yoga and other holistic movement art forms, and exercise, assist in the health of an adult. However, what about the kids? This was the only discussion at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadephia, PA on a cool, humid...

Keeping a healthy memory

Yoga offers tools to enhance memory and focus - and transform the way you think. The Philadelphia yoga-minded were meeting at night discussing exercise and brain architecture. We all know that stress damages the brain. Along with...

Breathing and yoga

On a beautiful spring day in Philadelphia many dedicated holistic healers attended Jefferson workshop. In yoga, the life force, known as prana, refers to the energy that animates, controls, and permeates the world in and around us. It...

Preparing to do yoga

A beautiful spring day in Philadelphia brings people outside to practice yoga. Fairmount Park was the heart and soul to the yoga group today. Preparation of yoga early in the morning, outside in the sun and surrounded by...

Yoga healing

Philadelphia workshops on yoga, pilates, and other holistic methods continued at Jefferson in center city. Yoga aims at developing and strengthening the immunity to those influences, from within and without, that might contribute to any sort of disintegration. ...

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