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Unwind and Relax

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Using examples of a student with acute psoriasis and her own problems with chronic back pain, regular columnist, yoga teacher Ruth White, describes how yoga was used to completely c...

Talk Back - From the Spine

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Ruth White writes from the point of view of the backbone in the context of a case study of a woman called Christine. Christine suffered from terrible back pain and had her backbone ...

Close Encounters with a Yoga Master

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In this Regular Column, Ruth White, now a well known and acclaimed yoga teacher, recounts how having suffered from backache for many years, she decided to take up yoga. She attended...

Teaching Yoga in Japan

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Ruth White tells of her experience teaching yoga in Japan. She found the Japanese a delight to teach because of their will power and tenacity, their efficiency and their kindness, h...

Yoga is Health Giving

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Yoga in our stressed-out world, says Ruth White, is as relevant as it was when it originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. It helps slow down an overactive mind while, at the ...

Positive Health of Mind and Body

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The author illustrates what she calls the -universal natural law that whatever we do in this life will eventually come back in exactly the same proportions- by relating the story of...

Surviving Ruth White at Grimstone Manor

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A teacher of Iyengar yoga, who also sells yoga accessories, such as mats, belts, blocks, videos, etc., the author says yoga is very much about looking within.

Ruth White - Iyengar Yoga Teacher

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Back in the Seventies, freelance photographer Ruth White was suffering from a lot of back pain. Years of bad posture and carrying heavy photographic equipment had taken their toll o...