I would love to teach phone yoga. When I've traveled, I've wanted to balance myself while being in an unfamiliar territory. This would be a great service to the yoga student as well as an opportunity for the yoga teacher to concentrate on one student. I would see it as an opportunity to work on the breathe and the details of the pose. For me, this would only work for a client that I've previously worked with so I am familiar with their abilities, gifts, goals and challenges. All in all this is a fantastic idea.

This idea strikes me as just another yoga gimmick.
How much further are we actually going to try to get from getting in touch with ourselves (including creating practices that nurture and soothe us)? Maybe I will just have someone else do my yoga for me and ask them to offer up their effort to me. That way, I won't actually have to do anything.
It gets sillier and sillier, doesn't it?
If someone is out of town, why don't they take a walk? or go to the spa for massage? take a swim? or, horrors!!! try a yoga class at a new studio. That is what I would recommend.

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Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones

and Cancer

By TARA PARKER-POPE
NEW YORK TIMES
Published: Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 12:26 p.m.

Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN

interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cell phones

next to their ears. "I think the safe practice is to use an

earpiece so you keep the microwave antenna away from

your brain," said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai

Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Dr. Vini Khurana, an associate professor of neurosurgery at

the Australian National University who is an outspoken critic

of cell phones, said: "I use it on the speaker-phone mode. I

do not hold it to my ear."

And CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta,

a neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital, said that, like

Black, he used an earpiece.

Along with Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy's recent

diagnosis of a glioma, a type of tumor that critics have long

associated with cell phone use, the doctors' remarks have

helped reignite a long-simmering debate about cell phones

and cancer.

That supposed link has been largely dismissed by many

experts, including the American Cancer Society. The theory

that cell phones cause brain tumors "defies credulity," said

Dr. Eugene Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at Montefiore

Medical Center.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, three large

epidemiology studies since 2000 have shown no harmful

effects. CTIA — the Wireless Association, the leading

industry trade group, said in a statement, "The

overwhelming majority of studies that have been published

in scientific journals around the globe show that wireless

phones do not pose a health risk."

The FDA notes, however, that the average period of phone

use in the studies it cites was about three years, so the

research doesn't answer questions about long-term

exposures. Critics say many studies are flawed for that

reason, and also because they do not distinguish between

casual and heavy use.

Cell phones emit nonionizing radiation, waves of energy that

are too weak to break chemical bonds or to set off the DNA

damage known to cause cancer. There is no known

biological mechanism to explain how nonionizing radiation

might lead to cancer.

But researchers who have raised concerns say that just

because science can't explain the mechanism doesn't mean

one does not exist. Concerns have focused on the heat

generated by cell phones and the fact that the radio

frequencies are absorbed mostly by the head and neck. In

recent studies that suggest a risk, the tumors tend to occur

on the same side of the head where the patient typically

holds the phone.

Like most research on the subject, the studies are

observational, showing only an association between cell

phone use and cancer, not a causal relationship. The most

important of these studies is called Interphone, a vast

research effort in 13 countries, including Canada, Israel and

several in Europe.

Some of the research suggests a link between cell phone

use and three types of tumors: glioma; cancer of the

parotid, a salivary gland near the ear; and acoustic

neuroma, a tumor that essentially occurs where the ear

meets the brain. All these cancers are rare, so even if cell

phone use does increase risk, the risk is still very low.

Last year, The American Journal of Epidemiology published

data from Israel finding a 58 percent higher risk of parotid

gland tumors among heavy cell phone users. Also last year,

a Swedish analysis of 16 studies in the journal Occupational

and Environmental Medicine showed a doubling of risk for

acoustic neuroma and glioma after 10 years of heavy cell

phone use.

"What we're seeing is suggestions in epidemiological studies

that have looked at people using phones for 10 or more

years," says Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News, an

industry publication that tracks the research. "There are

some very disconcerting findings that suggest a problem,

although it's much too early to reach a conclusive view."

Some doctors say the real concern is not older cell phone

users, who began using phones as adults, but children who

are beginning to use phones today and face a lifetime of

exposure.

"More and more kids are using cell phones," said Dr. Paul

Rosch, clinical professor of medicine and psychiatry at New

York Medical College. "They may be much more affected.

Their brains are growing rapidly, and their skulls are

thinner."

For people who are concerned about any possible risk, a

simple solution is to use a headset. Of course, that option

isn't always convenient, and some critics have raised

worries about wireless devices like the Bluetooth that

essentially place a transmitter in the ear.

The fear is that even if the individual risk of using a cell

phone is low, with 3 billion users worldwide, even a

minuscule risk would translate into a major public health

concern.

"We cannot say with any certainty that cell phones are

either safe or not safe," Black said on CNN. "My concern is

that with the widespread use of cell phones, the worst

scenario would be that we get the definitive study 10 years

from now, and we find out there is a correlation."
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