A 21st-Century Yogasanalia: Celebrating the Integration of Yoga, Science, and Medicine

the average woman also has a lower threshold for sensing bodily pain and less tolerance for pain than does the average man.

“the mind,”

Eastern perspective, as practiced by Ayurvedic and yogic doctors past and present, requires acceptance, observation, and experience

This point of view emphasizes the element of the unknown in the search for understanding in both science and yoga practice, and in a sense brings Einstein and B.K.S. Iyengar onto common ground;

If this makes no sense to you, then you are probably doing yoga for its medical/emotional benefits and this is certainly acceptable, but if this makes perfect sense to you, then you are doing yoga because you are fascinated by the many new things it teaches you about yourself, and you are doing it with the hope that even more can be learned by ques

All we can say at this point, is that one should try and stay current in regard to the medical literature, and not be too surprised or disappointed when seemingly sound principles are overturned, or at least placed in a poor light by more careful in-depth work; this is the usual twisting path of science progress intertwined with financial interests

hardwired through habit or reflex.

In both the peripheral and central nervous systems, the nerves that carry sensory information (temperature, pH, blood pressure, muscle tension, etc.) from receptors in the peripheral regions to the central region are called afferents, whereas those that carry excitatory neural signals from the central region toward the muscles, organs, and glands a

given a pain stimulus of constant intensity, women perceived the stimulus as more intense than did men and in doing so, showed more brain activity in pain regions of the brain than did men.