Yoga Journal’s Medical Editor Explains How Yoga Improves Health by Timothy McCall, MD Just weeks before my trip to India in 2002 to investigate yoga therapy and Indian research on yoga, I developed intermittent numbness and tingling in my righthand. After briefly considering scary things like a brain tumor and multiplesclerosis, I figured out that… [Read More]
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Western Science vs. Eastern Wisdom by Dr. Timothy McCall
Western Science vs. Eastern Wisdom Some of the most extensive medical research on yoga therapy is being done in India, but will it ever be accepted by Western medicine? by Timothy McCall, MD It’s 7:30 a.m. at the Vivekananda ashram—Prashanti Kuteeram, or “the abode of peace”—situated on a bucolic hundred acres outside the city of… [Read More]
