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Article: Ease depression with yoga: Kelley Colihan explores the mind/body connection of posing.(breathe in)
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- New Life Journal
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- November 1, 2008
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Today, it's likely that you know someone who is depressed or even that you're depressed yourself. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now finds that more than one in 20 Americans age 12 and older are depressed.
While medications and therapy can be effective paths to travel in the treatment of depression, it's increasingly being seen that daily yoga practice may help ease symptoms as well.
According to Amy Weintraub, author of Yoga for Depression and founder of the LffeForce Yoga Healing Institute, "Yoga provides a safe and effective treatment, not only for depression and anxiety, but also for the effects of trauma." Plus, there are no ...