… This group  is to help educate people about yoga and explain how one can achieve healthy, pain-free lifestyles through consistent practice. Whether you're completely new to the practice, or have been practicing for a few years, this is the group where you can come to learn more about yoga and yourself. Through our meet ups we will get to know each other, share insights into our individual conditions, practice together, help each other become healthier and happier.   This Meetup is organized by S …

… • Pain reduction. NIH-funded neuroimaging studies found that long-term meditation can mitigate the brain's response to pain by 40 to 50 percent. In other words, meditation is actually capable of modifying how the brain perceives pain, which could be good news for chronic pain sufferers. It's important to mention that treatment or cure is a coincidental benefit of Sahaja Meditation — a wonderful byproduct — not Sahaja's ultimate goal. Healing is not Sahaja's core objective, nor was Sahaja …