Yoga is part of mainstream culture today, with major medical centers, community healthcare centers, and neighborhood yoga studios offering yoga as a mind-body practice to support health and healing. In the US, over 20 million individuals now practice yoga, with studios found in nearly every state. Although yoga has existed in various forms for around 2500 years, the phenomenon of “yoga for heal...

I n this issue of Global Advances in Health and Medicine, Cheung et al report their findings from a mixed-methods study of adherence to yoga practice for older women with knee osteoarthritis. 1 These women completed an 8-week yoga intervention for osteoarthritis 6 months prior to completing a survey, face-to-face interviews, and vid-eotaping of their practice. Adherence at 6 months was analyzed...

Purpose Young adults are increasingly practicing yoga (Barnes et al., 2008) and yoga interventions have been shown to decrease stress and anxiety. However, little is known about the characteristics of young adults who engage in yoga or the correlates of yoga practice outside of clinical contexts. Our objective was to characterize students who practice yoga and to examine correlates of recent yo...

post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a disorder of emotional and mental stress occurring as an outcome of injury or severe emotional shock. yoga may be useful in decrease of ptsd symptomology. new studies demonstrate that people suffering from ptsd can find actual relief with yoga. yoga decreases stress-induced allosteric load in three reactive systems of stress: the autonomic nervous syste...

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects, if any, of the practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program over a certain period of time on the degree of neuroticism us measured by Defense Mechanism Test (DMT). A group of 15 applicants for pilot training with the Royal Swedish Air Force (RSAF) were chosen as subjects for the investigation. They had all been rejected d...

A total of 186 neurotic patients seeking treatment in the psychiatry outpatient clinic of the Nehru Hospital, P.G.I.M.E.R. were assigned consequently to three treatments i.e. Yoga therapy (Y), Yogic Relaxation (YR) and Chemotherapy (C). A record was kept of the number of visits made by each patient during the 5 months study period. In order to find out the factors associated with treatment acce...

The performance in a mirror star tracing task was assessed in two groups of volunteers (yoga and control) with 26 people in each group, and age range between 18 and 45 years. The star to be traced was six pointed and the outline was made up of 60 circles (4 mm in diameter). At the end of one month the yoga group showed a significant improvement in terms of an increase in the number of circles c...

BACKGROUND Type two diabetes is a complex and demanding chronic disease and its impact in a state (Kerala) which leads India in terms of the number of people with Diabetes is profound. Though the male to female ratio among the people with diabetes is roughly equal, women are uniquely and more severely affected. Management of type two Diabetes requires considerable dexterity on the part of the p...

Yoga is an ancient tradition that in contemporary research has been shown to have positive associations with a broad spectrum of health outcomes. Although promising findings have been highlighted, research exploring the mechanisms underlying the use of yoga for enhancing mental health is still in its infancy. Researchers have shown that yoga can increase levels of mindfulness, which has been sh...