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by Baxter Since I last wrote on subject of yoga and your digestive system (see Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Yoga ), I completed two live one-hour lectures on the topic for YogaU Online, which are now archived and available on their website if you had hoped to join me live but could not. See yogauonline.com to access these lecture. And, in addition to the information-packed talks, I completed a one-hour video practice on Yoga for Healthy Digestion in August! It is part of the package you get if you purchase the sessions from YogaU, and it is the first significant video practice I�ve produced in a long time, so I am pretty pleased to have it to share with you! To give you a sense of how I came up with the practices on the video, I wanted to share a bit about how yoga is applied to imbalances in the digestive system. As I discuss in my talks on yoga and the digestive system, when you have an imbalance in your digestive system, it can often be classified in one of two ways: either a condi...

by Baxter As I am preparing for my upcoming web talks on Yoga for Healthy Digestion for YogaU Online scheduled for July 23rd and 25th, I am rediscovering a lot about  both our digestive health and illness. Of particular interest is a very common gastro-intestinal (GI) condition called Irritable Bowel Syndrome, sometimes abbreviated IBS. The last time statistics were taken for this condition in the US, it was estimated that 15.3 million people suffered with IBS. It accounted for three million doctors office visits in 2004, 212,000 hospitalizations the same year, and 5.9 million prescriptions. Before we look at yoga�s potential impact on IBS, let�s take a look at how IBS shows up and what we know about its causes. According to the Mayo Clinic website: �Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder that affects your large intestine (colon). Irritable bowel syndrome commonly causes cramping, abdominal pain, bloating gas, diarrhea and constipation. Despite these uncomfortable sig...