Online yoga reduces barriers to accessing yoga, like cost and travel, while still providing mental and physical health benefits.| Yoganatomy
Yoga positively improved some aspects of heart arrhythmia and some secondary effects, like decreased anxiety and depression.| Yoganatomy
Ashtanga practitioners report on how their practice did or didn’t change during 2020, the first year of the covid-19 pandemic.| Yoganatomy
Should you do other exercise besides yoga? Find out why yoga offers some kinds of exercise benefits, but not others.| Yoganatomy
Based on our survey of over 2000 yoga practitioners, find out in which contexts people reported that yoga contributed to healing.| Yoganatomy
Yoga may benefit musculoskeletal disorders by increasing strength and mobility and by reducing pain. However, more research is needed.| Yoganatomy
Long-term yoga practice positively affected aspects of physical health such as flexibility and cardiopulmonary function.| Yoganatomy
Researchers suggest that yoga affects brain structure and function. Yoga practitioners had greater hippocampus tissue volume and prefrontal cortex activity.| Yoganatomy
Wondering what the benefits of doing yoga are? Over 2000 people participated in our survey and these are the benefits they reported!| Yoganatomy
Based on our survey of over 2000 yoga practitioners, David shares that doing a yoga practice at least 5 days per week increased the benefits of practice.| Yoganatomy
Long-term yoga practitioners perceived physical, mental, spiritual, and social benefits from their yoga practice.| Yoganatomy
Find out how yoga may help an Antarctic expedition team manage the physical and mental stress of doing research at remote locations.| Yoganatomy
There seem to be psychological benefits of yoga. Effects of yoga are likely specific to style and emphasis in each yoga practice.| Yoganatomy
A pilot research study suggests that vinyasa yoga may help support some aspects of cardiovascular health. Further research is warranted.| Yoganatomy
We surveyed more than 900 practitioners to learn more about the mental, emotional, and spiritual effects of Ashtanga yoga.| Yoganatomy
Learn why aging doesn't have to stop anyone from doing an Ashtanga practice, and find out how practice changes as we age.| Yoganatomy
Recent research shows that the parasympathetic nervous system contributes to increased heart rate variability at low breathing rates in yoga.| Yoganatomy
Researchers suggest that the breathing techniques are one mechanism that makes yoga work by stimulating the vagal nerve.| Yoganatomy
A plateau in yoga may be just a slow change. Be patient, consider a new approach, and reconsider what progress in yoga means.| Yoganatomy
Yoga may help us increase our sense of our internal state, called interoception, when we intentionally focus on our internal experience.| Yoganatomy
Yoga styles differed in the particular components included in classes and the percentage of class time allocated to each aspect of yoga.| Yoganatomy
Pranayama affects our physiology in many positive ways. Learn how yogic breathing practices may affect us from this recent research study.| Yoganatomy
Drishti practice incorporates focusing your external gaze on a fixed point with the intention of also holding your mental focus on that point.| Yoganatomy
Yoga improved balance compared to a control group in the study we summarize here. Good balance is important for aging well.| Yoganatomy