Comments on Somebody Heal Me by Diana Lee: meditation & yoga can reduce migraines up to 70 pe...

As a yoga teacher, I have to add that a gentle pra...

2008-07-14T16:43:00.000-05:00

As a yoga teacher, I have to add that a gentle practice would be best for most migraine sufferers. Many headache sufferers are also dealing with some level of exhaustion due to the pain, so attending a vigorous class may be counterproductive. Don't know why they would say "intensive" yoga practice - maybe the sheer fact of practicing 5 times a week makes it intensive. Restorative, gentle yoga,

I wish the article had more information about what...

2008-06-11T14:45:00.000-05:00

I wish the article had more information about what specific activities the participants engaged in so that we could try to replicate it. I suspect it was more focused on breathing and gentle poses than more challenging ones.

I have a follow up post in the works that discusses ways to ease yourself into a gentle mind-body practice.

I'm so sorry you've been driven from an activity

Ironically enough, I was an avid yogi prior to dev...

2008-06-11T14:25:00.000-05:00

Ironically enough, I was an avid yogi prior to developing an intractable migraine in early March that has yet to go away. Now, I've had to give up yoga; my medication makes me unable to practice Bikram Yoga due to the heat and the pounding in my head only gets worse during inverted poses which eliminates most anything with sun salutations. I would have thought that an activity which claims to

I wish I had enough energy, motivation and time to...

2008-06-11T08:54:00.000-05:00

I wish I had enough energy, motivation and time to give an hour a day, five days a week to yoga, and meditation because the outcome is so good. But being wracked with migraines so often the possiblity of reaching that goal seems so far away. But thank you for posting this data. As far as a therapy go, it beats any drug I've seen. Guess I should be doing yoga and meditation. Wow, thanks for