Iyengar Yoga helps Breast Cancer Patients

One of my students, Dee Blinka, gave me an article (Science News vol 171, May 12, 2007, p. 301),
about a pilot study on the effects of Iyengar Yoga on Breast cancer patients. THe study reports that women who practiced Iyengar yoga after completing cancer treatment had lower levels of depression, more ability to cope with the "demands of illness" and perhaps mostly amazingly "40 percent less of the immune system agent NF-kappa-B... which is linked to the production of inflammation aggravating chemicals."

Pretty impressive findings!