My yoga workshops, "Reducing Stress in Daily Life," offer a chance to explore how simple yoga postures and breathing exercises can help make life less stressful. Please contact us with any questions or to arrange a workshop for your organization.

Here are links to articles about the physiology of stress, including some articles about how yoga can help:

"Physiology of the Stress Response," Stephen Palmer: http://www.managingstress.com/articles/physiology.htm

"This is Your Body on Stress," Roger Cole:

http://www.yogajournal.com/health/1514

"Inhale, Exhale, Relax!," Richard Rosen:

http://www.yogajournal.com/practice/1523

Yoga students often ask for recommendations about DVDs. Yoga DVDs differ greatly in style and also in their assumptions about the viewer’s level of experience. There is a wide variety of DVDs on gentle yoga, restorative yoga, yoga for stress reduction and yoga nidra (a guided, progressive relaxation sequence), all of which emphasize relaxation. You may want to buy or borrow (check at your public library) a few different DVDs and see which ones you like best.  Sometimes the viewer comments on websites that sell these DVDs can be helpful.