On Sunday, Oct. 1, the annual Sunrise Yoga Festival was celebrated in the Sun Bowl. One of the purposes of this event is the meditation and connection of the body with the Earth, as told by the event staff. People implemented several techniques for...

Patricia Flores, doctoral student in rhetoric and composition studies, recently defended her dissertation this past Monday, Oct. 31, in which she associates yoga to an increase in interpersonal communication. According to Flores, besides health benefits...

The goal of a new study at The University of Texas at El Paso is to evaluate the impact of yoga on the stress and anxiety levels of students and their academic focus. The study also aims to gain the students’ perspective on whether or not yoga was effective...

Maricarmen Vizcaino, doctoral candidate in UTEP’s Interdisciplinary Health Sciences program, is writing her dissertation on the impact of yoga on people who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Vizcaino, a certified yoga instructor, has been teaching...