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  Longevity · 20 September 2026

  Yoga for Longevity: What Breath, Movement, and the Evidence Really Tell Us

  Can yoga help us age well? A careful look at slow breathing, movement, stress, sleep, and one founder’s striking—but limited—biological-age result.

• Oral care · 20 September 2026

  Tongue Scraping: What It Does, What the Evidence Says, and How to Do It Safely

  A careful guide to tongue scraping, oral freshness, tongue coating and safe technique—separating plausible benefits from claims the research does not support.

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  Practice · 18 September 2026

  Beginning Pranayama Without Forcing the Breath

  The Gheranda Samhita is careful about how breath practice begins. Here is what that caution is protecting.

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  Philosophy · 13 September 2026

  The Eight Limbs of Patanjali, In Plain Language

  A clear, unembellished walk through ashtanga yoga as Patanjali sets it out in the Yoga Sutras.

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  Foundations · 6 September 2026

  What Classical Hatha Yoga Actually Is

  Hatha yoga is not stretching. It is a complete system for working with body, breath, energy and awareness.