The yoga cure

Can yoga squelch the urge to drink? Considering its potential for significant physical, mental, and emotional transformation, one would imagine so.

Because there's yoga and there's yoga -- the few little stretches we do to stay limber versus total immersion in its practices.

It's the latter that's emphasized in Yoga Blog – Yogam Sharanam. Here, Swami Muktananda Saraswati offers the yogic solution to alcoholism. It includes, among other things, the purging of mental constipation.

While this post (based on a 1981 talk in Switzerland) might initially baffle the uninitiated, you can piece it all together by clicking around the site.

If you're unfamiliar with yoga and want an easier place to start, here's a good site for beginners.