50 Health Conditions Benefited by Yoga<br> Recently, we posted a PDF of the updated list of 50 Health Conditions Benefited by Yoga and, by popular request, a PDF of an expanded version that includes 15 pages of references. Since then, many of you have written in wondering if it’s okay to copy these PDFs, give them out to your students, post them on your web site, or forward them on to others. The answer is yes! We’d like everyone to know about the scientific evidence of yoga’s effectiveness, so please feel free to share these with anyone you think might benefit. May we suggest your doctor? <p> New Book<br> As I’m already hard at work on a new book -- which will examine the relationship between modern medicine and holistic treatments like yoga and Ayurveda -- my teaching will be limited in 2009. The most intensive training for the next year will be the five-day workshop on Yoga as Medicine: A Technology for Life Transformation at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Western Massachusetts. This workshop happens just before Labor Day, a great time to be there. Last year, there was a fabulous mix of yoga teachers, serious students, people seeking help from a variety of conditions, and health care professionals, including several physicians. This led to a great exchange, particularly when we practiced doing yoga therapy in small groups. In fact, that went so well we’ll be doing even more of it this year.