If you're practicing meditation solo, the best yoga pose to support the flow and observation of thoughts drifting in and out of your headspace is easy pose — or sukhasana, in Sanskrit.

Music creates faster dopamine response than meditation The brain’s reward system responds to music with remarkable speed and intensity. When you hear a particularly moving musical passage or the ...

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New research suggests a unique form of meditation can affect brain regions linked to emotional regulation and memory, potentially paving the way for new treatments for anxiety and depression.

Transcendental meditation changes the structures in the brain known for regulating mood, according to a study published by Brain and Cognition. The practice is known for relieving anxiety and stress.

Mountain pose is a great place to start with your post-vacay yoga practice, especially if you've been flying to and from your travel destination. This simple, yet powerful asana will ground you ...

Meditation can be a powerful tool for your health. Studies show that the practice has a variety of neurological benefits, from changes in brain volume to decreasing activity in parts of the brain ...

RELATED: Yoga and the Brain Many of the early studies on mindfulness were trials that taught one group of subjects necessary details of meditation and compared those results to a control group of ...

Meditation is nothing new: It’s a fixture of many religions, and has been practice for thousands of years. However, scientific understanding of how meditation changes the body is ever-increasing.

My brain: I wonder if I need an MRI? Meditation app: Let’s start with the top of your head. My brain: MRIs are scary. God, I hope I don’t need one. I need to set a reminder to call the doctor.

The volunteers practiced Vipassana meditation for three months, for 10 to 12 hours a day. Another group got only a quickie one-hour course, then practiced Vipassana for 20 minutes a day for a week.

As research into meditation becomes more rigorous, scientists have found that its impact goes beyond inner calm, says Newsweek's science columnist, Sharon Begley. Early studies of ...