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Linda Sparrowe, contributing editor to the magazine, Yoga International has written a wonderful article called Transcending Trauma, how throught gentle body-based practices, yoga allows trauma survivors to reconnect with innate power to heal. Robin Carnes and Karen Soltes, Warriors At (Read more…)

It’s so great to see positions like this being advertised in the military. Just more validation for yoga and meditation as a viable treatment modality to help our servicemembers; marines, soldiers, airmen with PTSD, TBI (traumatic brain injury) and combat-related (Read more…)

The Army Wounded Warrior Program (AW2) Community Support Network presents TGIT—Thank Goodness It’s Thursday Meditation Hour A last Thursday in the month hour long meditation by telephone August 1, 2011 – Now every Thursday. By Patty Sands, WTC Stratcom Thank (Read more…)

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By Alexandra Hemmerly-Brown WASHINGTON (Army News Service, June 25, 2010) — The Army’s health-care system may soon see changes in how Soldiers are treated for pain, according to a report released by the Army’s surgeon general Wednesday which recommends 109 (Read more…)

Source: Robin Carnes, Karen Soltes, and Molly Asebey-Birkholm An increasing number of studies are confirming what we, as yoga and meditation instructors in the military and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), see every week: serving in battle takes a heavy (Read more…)

Lewis Leithner never thought he’d try a yoga class. Push-ups, running, and similar physical training activities were Lewis’s style of exercise, having been in the Navy for 31 years. But when old age crept up and Leithner’s chronic back pain (Read more…)

By Eileen Rivers Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Derrick Farley, a 29-year-old Army sergeant stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., has seen many people die. He served in Iraq for three year-long tours of duty with only six-month (Read more…)

iTunes. iPhones. Now introducting iRest, a new integrative restoration technique helping US Marine veterans combat post traumatic stress disorder, depression, chronic pain and insomnia following deployment, according the program descriptions. The US Marines aren’t the first troops to take to (Read more…)