Yoga trend catching on with soldiers
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When Marine Lt. Alan Zarracina finally did the splits after months of struggling with the difficult pose in yoga class, the limber women around him applauded.
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A small but growing number of yoga practitioners are reaching out to the homeless, to prisons and to troubled youth.
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For the men who practice it, it's about not just fitness but a connection with God.
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Life & style: Sabine Durrant discovers how yoga can help children's development.
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Move over, junior. Grandma and grandpa are joining the wave in video and computer games as makers step up efforts to promote the software as brain-healthy exercises.
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To enable soldiers to give critical medical care to comrades on the battlefield, the Army will begin teaching combat lifesaving techniques to recruits during basic training.
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US soldiers returning from Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder are being treated with virtual reality.
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Thousands of U.S. troops with physical injuries and mental health problems are encountering a benefits system that is already overburdened.
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India News, NEW DELHI - The Indian governmentâs much publicized withdrawal of troops from Kashmir was nothing more than a normal rotation, and the number of soldiers was actually increasing, a television report said on Friday.
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Yoga is like coffee -- stimulating, but you can't just say you want some: You can order it fast, slow, hard, easy, with in-your-face meditation or with nary a word of Sanskrit. There are a half-dozen or more major forms, and while that provides the benefit of choice and change, it also increases the...
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Many pitchers prepare for the season by hiring personal trainers. Others work out at their old high schools. And those who have tried everything come to Alan Jaeger for meditation and yoga.
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Swami Ramdev has attracted growing numbers of middle-class Indians with his "yoga made easy" approach.
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CHANNAI, India  - Yoga induces a feeling of well-being in healthy people, and can reverse the clinical and biochemical changes associated with metabolic syndrome, according to results of studies from Sweden and India. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of heart disease risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity and high blood sugar.
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The veterans administration teams up with medicine men to use sweat lodges and talking circles to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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A few lucky people in need of a break from their stress got a chance at some of unconventional therapy.
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About 9 percent of U.S. troops who have performed combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan report experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study led by Defense Department researchers.
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Women soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress, such as those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, are best off directly confronting their wartime experiences in therapy, a study said on Tuesday.