Yoga is a gentle way to help strengthen the body especially if you are suffer from back pain. Many yoga asanas focus on the spine and postural alignment. Many postures work to improve spinal strength and flexibility, making yoga perfect for back pain.

Can what you wear contribute to you feeling well or unwell?

Herbal vinegars can add a little zest, and lots of therapeutic health benefits, to some of your favourite dishes!

Tienchi ginseng root is one of the most highly valued plants in Oriental medicine, thanks to its therapeutic health benefits.

Caffeinated alcoholic drinks are a major health risk.

Can you create a home from garbage? We have been taking more and more resources from the planet and in recent years there has been a move to address this imbalance.

An integrated model is the blueprint for the future practice of medicine.

WalkScore.com The website much loved by Real Estate Agents that cleverly uses Google Maps to analyse neighbourhoods and rate them according to walkers needs. The Dark Mistress loves data, but do we need a website to tell us what we can find out by … gasp… actually walking? Walkscore will tell you what Google knows […]

As a recently certified yoga teacher, I’ve been thinking about what’s important in a yoga class. As a teacher, I think it’s important to understanding why your students are attending your class and what they want to get out of your class. All of this made me think about the varied reasons we do yoga.

Some uplifting words I got sent a while back. I hope it inspires you this weekend…

People of a high socioeconomic class have difficulties identifying emotion.

Humans are the only species on the planet that drink milk beyond weaning. But is milk, as we’ve been lead to believe, the most vital source of calcium for the human body?