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Cardiovascular disease is responsible for over 40 per cent of deaths in Australia. Discover how the practise of yoga can improve cardiovascular health and increase your lifespan.

There are better ways than surgery and expensive cosmetics to counteract the effects of ageing.

Winter is the season of cold weather and the common cold and flu. Here are some great natural therapies to help prevent and fight the flu this winter.

The Bowen technique is a revolutionary massage method that uses the body’s own healing process to play the role of an adjunct, letting the neural signalling system allow bodily repairs or adjustments to happen at a natural pace.

The practice of yoga has long been evolving. Yoga in the 21st Century recognises that every body and every soul is different. Understanding its origins and foundations is essential in adapting the ancient practice to suit individual spiritual, emotional and physical needs.

It’s possible to be an ethical omnivore if you care enough to find out where your food came from, how it lived and died and what it ate — and are willing to pay a bit more to benefit the farmers, the animals, the planet and yourself.

New analysis has revealed that either too much or too little sleep can cause premature death.

End-of-year festivities need not mean wasteful indulgence. It’s easy to maintain your earth-friendly sensibilities while creating a feast to nourish your body and soul.

In learning to live with Meniere’s disease, Michael Grosvenor found that a low-salt diet can be enjoyable as well as healthy.

Known as the yoga of awareness, kundalini yoga has the potential to awaken your unlimited potential through a combination of various poses, breathing, chanting and meditative practices.

Incontinence may be a taboo subject, but it’s also a very common problem, so many people will be relieved to find there are natural ways to combat this potentially life-changing condition.

According to this story in the New York Times, the latest and greatest in yoga is pay-what-you-can. I haven’t heard of any donation-based yoga classes here in Australia (feel free to correct me in the comments), but having read this piece I’m not entirely convinced I’d want to try it. I like the idea of […]