Sentences with phrase «yoga intervention»

As a result, researchers are beginning to pay greater attention to it as a target of yoga intervention.

The 12 - week yoga intervention consisted of two 60 - minute instructor - led yoga sessions per week, with home practice sessions encouraged.

The researchers found that the subjects who participated in weekly mindful yoga intervention programs developed significantly stronger coping skills, like the ability to take control of their emotions and breath.

Mounting evidence suggests that yoga interventions for elderly adults with dementia may improve cardiovascular and respiratory fitness, and enhance physical strength, flexibility, range of motion, balance, and mental health.

Lisa contributed to the first published research study to use subjective and objective data to examine the acute and longitudinal effects of a school based yoga intervention in young children.

Source Efficacy of an Eight - Week Yoga Intervention on Symptoms of Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS): A Pilot Study Kim E. Innes, Terry Kit Selfe, Parul Agarwal, Kimberly Williams, and Kathryn L. Flack.

Effects of yoga intervention during pregnancy: A review for current status.

Preliminary indications of the effect of a brief yoga intervention on markers of inflammation and DNA methylation in chronically stressed women.

As is typical for yoga research, their review found that yoga interventions varied greatly in their frequency, duration, content and intensity with some including weekly classes and others requiring participants to practice six to seven times per week for 12 months.

In fact, one study showed that 10 - weeks of yoga intervention combining breathing, stretching, strengthening and mindfulness exercises, increased quality of life, decreased fear avoidance beliefs, and decreased pain disability in people who experienced non-specific chronic low back pain.

Yoga group members also demonstrated improved psychological wellbeing at the end of the Vinyasa yoga intervention.

Appropriateness and acceptability of a Tele - Yoga intervention for people with heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Qualitative findings from a controlled pilot study.

Yoga interventions in pregnancy: A qualitative review.

Considerably more research has addressed the effects of yoga interventions on hypertension (high BP).

Effects of yoga intervention during pregnancy: A review for current status.

«Since we know that stress and anxiety can affect cognitive performance, the eight - week yoga intervention may have boosted participants» performance by reducing their stress.»

Comparison participants were invited to attend the yoga intervention only after six months.

«Participants in the yoga intervention group showed significant improvements in working memory capacity, which involves continually updating and manipulating information,» McAuley said.

All yoga interventions used were specifically designed for treatment of lower back pain, and were provided by experienced and qualified teachers.

Yoga interventions in pregnancy: A qualitative review.

This is the first prospective pilot study assessing the epidemiological effects of a yoga intervention on biomarkers of inflammation (CRP, IL6, and TNF) and DNA methylation patterns of the CRP, IL6 and TNF genes, and comparing changes in these biomarkers with self - reported stress, distress and mood in middle - aged women.

Following the initial study, these women were offered an 8 - week yoga intervention, and underwent a series of tests to assess several biomarkers of inflammation as well as their psychological wellbeing.

«Yoga intervention: breathing, meditation / mindfulness, and physical practice, was found to reduce tension, anxiety, and (the incidence of) trigger events,» said Matthews, an exercise science professor at Miramar College, San Diego.

Nearly all studies indicated reduced anxiety after a yoga intervention.

Of these studies, 94 % reported clinically and statistically significant reductions in lipid levels following participation in the yoga intervention.

Neither of the remaining two studies found statistically significant changes in blood pressure following the yoga intervention.

The remaining 2 studies failed to show statistically significant differences in HRV at the end of the yoga interventions.

One would presume that the benefits of yoga interventions would be reflected in greater HF - HRV and lower LF - HRV, however these changes following yoga interventions have been difficult to reliably detect.

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Of the few studies in which yoga was used to alleviate epileptic symptoms, several have reported a decline in seizure frequency, and improved quality of life following a yoga intervention.

In addition to its physical and psychological effectiveness, studies find that yoga interventions are generally feasible, cost - effective, safe, and accessible for those with MS who have mild - to - moderate disability, and those who have difficulty maintaining regular physical exercise routines.

New research published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine suggests that a 12 - week yoga intervention may help to curb both depressive symptoms, and alter biomarkers associated with stress and poor health.

Data were collected before and after the yoga intervention.

All told, this research points to the need for additional studies that examine how yoga may influence depression and whether alterations of biomarkers such as HRV can be used as an objective, physiological measure of a yoga intervention's success in reducing depressive symptoms.

Lastly, given the small number of women with major depressive disorder included in this study, we are not able to determine whether a yoga intervention would be feasible and beneficial for women with more severe forms of depression.

Yoga interventions were highly variable, some included yogic breathing alone (5), while others offered breathing, postures and meditation.

He was responsible for curriculum development, supervision and oversight of the yoga intervention component of the first of its kind, NIH funded study, conducted by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk to assess the utility and feasibility of yoga for adults with treatment - resistant PTSD.

In the study, thirty - eight adult women with full or sub-threshold PTSD were randomly assigned to either a 12 - session, Kripalu - based, «trauma sensitive» yoga intervention or a weekly assessment control group.

Importantly, these benefits lasted at least 14 weeks after the yoga intervention ended.

Short Yoga Interventions You don't have to attend a 60 or 90 - minute Yoga intervention.

A Yoga Intervention Program for Patients Suffering from Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.