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Try Holiday Yoga and Bounce Back from Too Much Merriment

Whether you're stressed out or just tired out, holiday yoga can undo the effects of overindulgence.

By Leah Zerbe

Topics: stress, yoga



Go with the flow: Some simple yoga moves will help you move through holiday stress.

RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If travel, shopping, family obligations, and nonstop eating during the holiday have taken a toll your body, don't despair. Just try some holiday yoga moves to help you detox from overeating and erase holiday stress. Studies have found that yoga can improve blood sugar levels, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels; lower stress levels; and even relieve back pain—like the sore spine you may have incurred during that Black Friday shopping spree.

Yoga expert Kristen Schultz Dollard, author of The Yoga Body Diet: Your Stress-Free 5-Week Weight-Loss Plan (Rodale, 2010), suggests a few poses that will help you get back on track after a long weekend of overeating and stressful holiday shopping. Read on and get ready for a full recovery.



Yoga!

Excellent series that has me feeling better already. I have been a former practitioner of this form of exercise and needed to be reminded of the tremendous benefits this discipline accords. This should be a weekly series.

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