If you are used to not getting enough sleep on weekdays and working like a horse, you probably spend a great deal of time in bed at the weekends, thinking you can compensate for lack of sleep this way. However, the experts from the Medical College of Pennsylvania have another opinion. Full story

Even if you don’t have stiff shoulders too often due to the nature of your work, you are sure to enjoy a good kneading that will send waves of sweet relaxation from your shoulders down your body. If you spend hours and hours at your computer typing and clicking ceaselessly that is what you stand in bad need of. Full story

British dentists came up with a new way to calm their nervous patients down. A special device called NuCalm will do the job. The device consists of a generator and headphones, and emits sound waves at a certain frequencies. A patient will calm down and enter a state of deep relaxation on the edge between wakefulness and sleep within five minutes. Full story

Stone therapy or a massage with hot stones is quite a new SPA-treatment. Try to do it yourself or even turn it into an erotic past time. Full story

A group of international experts from the universities Haifa (Israel), Leeds (Great Britain) and Harvard (USA) believe that the traditional Indian technique of relaxation, yoga, has its own genetic and biological benefits. Muscle relaxation, breathing exercises, and practice of meditation help mental and physical development, lower signs of stress and anxiety, strengthen the immunity, and prevent the effect of the stress hormones. The physiologists noted that such observations were made in people who practice yoga for years as well as in beginners. Full story