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Yogacampus are hosting, with the support of their friends at Yogamatters, a charity online yoga quiz – the Yogacampus Challenge - Wednesday evening (27 May) between 7.00 and 9.00pm.
The entry fee of £10 will all be donated to two great charities - The Hope Foundation and Ourmala. Yogacampus and Yogamatters are offering lots of vouchers as prizes.
Go to Yogacampus to find out more, sign up and be part of this amazing yoga community!
Read MoreWalking on Earth is a digital platform that brings together the world leading practitioners, classes, content and events to create a personalised and trusted home for your spiritual practice. The platform allows individuals to design a spiritual practice bespoke to their needs by receiving a complimentary consultation with our Head of Yoga and Wellness who will guide them to the appropriate teachers and methods on the site. Participants compliment their classes with workshops, content, courses and meetups to build a community of like-minded individuals and learn how to live a more fulfilling and compassionate life.
Read MoreReport by Steffany Haaz Moonaz, Clifton O. Bingham III, Lawrence Wissow and Susan J. Bartlett, from The Journal of Rheumatology, July 2015, 42 (7) 1194-1202;
Read MoreIn “How to Be an Antiracist,” Ibram X. Kendi argues that we should think of “racist” not as a pejorative but as a simple, widely encompassing term of description. Article from The New Yorker, by Kelefa Sanneh.
Read MoreRoughly one per cent of all the plastic that has ever gone into the ocean is floating on its surface. What happened to the rest of it? Carolyn Kormann investigates for the New Yorker.
Read MoreWhat the self-help gurus and their critics reveal about our times.
Read MoreA new study casts doubt on the viability of biodegradable plastics as an answer to plastic pollution.
Read MoreAnxiety is part of life. You feel it when you’re stuck in traffic, harried at work or worrying about your family and finances. There’s no doubt that feeling anxious can elevate your blood pressure, at least in the short term. Yet this constant worrying exerts a toll on our heart. Markham Heid at TIME explores how and why.
Read MoreIn the BBC Science Focus Magazine, Physicist Paul Davies discusses an emerging area of research that aims to merge physics and biology, to explain how life began. Read the full story
Read MoreDavid Baker at WIRED UK explores how conjurors and neuroscientists are discovering how magic helps us better understand the human brain.
Read MoreJanice Quirt at Yoga International looks at how to make your practice more Earth-friendly.
Read MoreErin Magner at WellAndGood.com looks at how teachers are adapting their classes for triggering times.
Read MoreBBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour series explores the impact of the menopause on women’s work and relationships, and potential treatments.
Read MorePaper published in The Lancet finds no evidence of a temporal relationship between cannabis use and pain severity or pain interference, and no evidence that cannabis use reduced prescribed opioid use or increased rates of opioid discontinuation.
Read MoreAlex Matthews-King at The Independent: Researchers have shown it’s possible to temporarily block the brain from forming new memories using a combination of sound waves, viruses and drugs.
Read MoreKatherine J. Wu at Smithsonian.com: seminal research reveals that sperm change their cargo as they travel the reproductive tract—and the differences can have consequences for fertility.
Read MoreSarah Knapton at The Telegraph look at a major new research from Yale University and Oxford that suggests exercising for 90 minutes a day or more could make mental health worse.
Read MoreSarah Knapton at The Telegraph reports that humans do not age because of wear and tear but because biological processes - which once helped us - fail to shut off. This new research comes from University College London, Lancaster University and Queen Mary University of London.
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