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Yoga and Tai Chi

Yoga and Tai Chi are ancient practices that offer many benefits to your physical and mental health. Discover how yoga blends physical exercise and mental relaxation to strengthen your muscles and relax your mind. Learn how Tai Chi can bring arthritis relief through slow, gentle movement.

Yoga Benefits for Arthritis
Ease pain, increase flexibility and decrease stress with yoga.

Yoga That’s Right for You
Learn which yoga practices are best for your joints.

What Is Yoga?
This 5,000-year-old practice, which combines movement, breathing and relaxation, also offers benefits for people with arthritis.

Beginner Yoga: 10 Tips to Help You Get Started
Follow these tips for people with arthritis before starting a yoga program

Top 10 Yoga Myths Debunked
There are almost as many myths about yoga as there are yoga poses. Here’s the truth about yoga – especially when it comes to people with arthritis.

Weight Loss and Yoga
Yoga strengthens, relaxes and even helps promote weight loss.

Chair Yoga
Turn your chair into a yoga prop

Yoga for Rheumatoid Arthritis
A program of yoga poses, breathing and relaxation significantly reduces joint tenderness and swelling for people with rheumatoid arthritis

Laugh Away Your Pain with Laughter Yoga
A unique, effective approach to pain relief

Yoga Lowers Inflammation
Regular practice reduces levels of pro-inflammatory protein 1/22/10

Yoga Exercises
Get limber and stay healthy with these yoga poses exercise videos

Tai Chi for Arthritis
An ancient Chinese exercise offers arthritis relief through slow, gentle movement.

Answering Your Tai Chi Questions
An Arthritis Foundation tai chi instructor talks about the exercise class.