Techniques
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Techniques · Science · Traditions
Wave Hands Like Clouds: What the Tai Chi Fall-Prevention Trials Actually Found
Three times a week for six months, between 2001 and 2002, physically inactive adults aged 70 and over — recruited through a Por...
Techniques · Breath
Six Breaths a Minute: What a Rosary and a Yoga Mantra Do to the Heart
Twenty-three healthy adults — sixteen men and seven women, mean age thirty-four — sat in laboratories in Florence and Pavia, wi...
Techniques · Science
Blocking the Body's Painkillers: What a Naloxone Trial Revealed About Meditation and Pain
In a lab at Wake Forest School of Medicine, volunteers lay with a thermal probe pressed against the back of the right calf, an ...
Techniques · Breath · Beginners
Sensation by Sensation: The Goenka Method of Vipassana and the Dhamma Course Network
A student on the tenth day of a Goenka-tradition Vipassana course sits with eyes closed, moving attention systematically throug...
