Sentences with phrase «yoga practitioners compared»

Not exact matches

The research team wanted to see if elderly long - term yoga practitioners had any differences in terms of brain structure compared with healthy elderly people who had never practiced yoga.

In the study, 10 yoga practitioners were compared to non-practitioners of approximately the same age (mean age 27.5 years, sd = 9.33 and 26.7 years, sd 6.48 respectively), gender (2 male, 8 female), height and weight.

Studies show that yoga practitioners had a 27 percent increase in GABA levels after yoga sessions compared with a control group (Streeter, 2007).

This high humidity, coupled with the increased temperatures of the surroundings would make yoga practitioners sweat like crazy, and with increased sweating, several advantages compared to conventional, room - temperature yoga are associated.