Does yoga untie the pretzel of anxiety and depression?

Alternative Medicine Alert

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 100-102

  Balk, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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