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Postmenopause
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
Various forms of yoga practice serve to calm the mind, help with stress reduction, and improve mood and concentration. In addition, yoga helps to increase strength and flexibility, balance and coordination, reaction times, lung function, cardiovascular conditioning, and weight loss. Yoga is undisputed as an adjunct intervention for menopausal and postmenopausal women.
Modalities
Published in Michael Weir, Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine, 2023
If a potential risk of yoga includes the possibility of causing pain during or after yoga, then this should be advised. Clients should be asked to consider any injury, disability or sickness that may impact on how they approach their yoga practice. Consideration should be given to discussing potential known risks of yoga.
Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy for Allergy and Asthma
Published in Pudupakkam K Vedanthan, Harold S Nelson, Shripad N Agashe, PA Mahesh, Rohit Katial, Textbook of Allergy for the Clinician, 2021
Satyam Tripathi, Kashinath G Metri, Purnandu Sharma, Amit Singh, Ahalya Sharma
Recently, Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAMs) such as Ayurveda and Yoga have drawn the attention of the healthcare system due their health benefiting effects. Ayurveda is among the most ancient health care systems on Earth. Ayurveda provides a guideline for a healthy lifestyle to prevent diseases and promote health. Further, Ayurveda has mentioned the various kinds of lifestyle related disorders including allergies and asthma and their management. Yoga is also an ancient science with its roots in India; yoga helps the growth of physical, mental, spiritual aspects of an individual. Yoga emphasizes the mind which determines our lifestyle as a fundamental factor that leads to a healthy or unhealthy lifestyle. The ‘adhi’ the negative emotions, ignorance and addictions in the mind provokes the person for an unhealthy lifestyle and yoga helps to eliminate the adhi. Both Ayurveda and Yoga propose that the physical body is governed by three biological forces called vata (responsible for movements), pitta (responsible for metabolism) and kapha (responsible for growth and nourishment) and disease is the result of imbalance in one or more of these energies. Ayurveda recognizes asthma as Tamak shwasa (Rajnik and Varsakiya 2018). According to Ayurveda tamaka swas (asthma) is the result of imbalance in kapha and vata doshas in the respiratory system (pranvaha srotas) (Hemlatha 2006).
Postural stability and flexibility responses of yoga training in women: Are improvements similar in both sexes?
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2023
Özgü İnal, Hilal Keklicek, Menekşe Karahan, Enis Uluçam
Researchers define postural stability as the ability to control the center of gravity within a given support base, including both static and dynamic conditions, resulting from synchronous integration of sensory and motor function. In normal stance, body sway parameters of measurement is a good indicator of an individual’s balance capacity and play an important role in defining balanced body posture (Farinatti et al., 2014; Shetty et al., 2018). There are some studies in the literature providing evidence that yoga may be an exercise intervention that can be used to improve postural stability (de Haart, Geurts, Huidekoper, Fasotti, & van Limbeek, 2004; Nejc, Jernej, Loefler, & Kern, 2010). However, the number of studies investigating the effects of yoga on balance and postural stability in healthy adults is insufficient (Mondal et al., 2017; Chiari et al., 2002). In addition, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study examining the effect of yoga on flexibility, dynamic and static postural stability responses in young adults. The most known effect of yoga is on flexibility. Some factors, such as sex, age, and individual differences, effect flexibility (Lynton et al., 2007). However, most of the studies about yoga and flexibility have been done in elderly individuals (Hazelhurst & Claassen, Hazelhurst and Claassen, Hazelhurst and Claassen, 2006; Subramaniam & Bhatt, 2017) and there is insufficient information to explain the effect of yoga on flexibility in healthy young adults (Hunter, 2016).
Comparing Aerobic Exercise with Yoga in Anxiety Reduction: An Integrative Review
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2022
Amanda K. Cole, Tamera Pearson, Mary Knowlton
According to this literature review, the current evidence supports the use of yoga to decrease stress and anxiety symptoms. Yoga brings the benefits of a body-mind connection that helps an individual remain present in the moment, a state of mindfulness. Yoga practices also helps bring awareness to a rhythmic breathing that assist in calming the mind and bringing a center to a person’s thoughts. Yoga, in the traditional and meditative styles, can help decrease anxiety and PTSD symptoms. Although aerobic exercise has many health benefits, as this research indicates, this type of activity has only a trace benefit in lowering anxiety symptoms. While this integrative literature review was not intended to focus on depressive symptoms, the results show that aerobic exercise is more likely to decrease depression than anxiety. According to Wipfli et al. (2011), aerobic exercise has a similar benefit as SSRIs in improving depressive symptoms. This could explain the drastic improvement in depressive symptoms and only slight change in anxiety symptoms that occur when a person engages in aerobic exercise. Therefore, including meditative or hatha yoga into an aerobic exercise routine can be beneficial in lowering anxiety levels as well as still receiving the benefits of aerobic physical activity.
Older women and wellbeing through the pandemic: Examining the effect of daily online yoga lessons
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2021
Yoga is an ancient Indian science of physical and mental discipline and practice and generally combines physical postures to increase strength and flexibility, mind-body-breath coordination and meditation exercises (Morone & Greco, 2007). The discipline of yoga has different branches and the variations are due to differing emphasis on postures-breath-meditation repertoire and aims of transformation (Smith, Hancock et al., 2007). Yoga interventions, as supported by systematic reviews (Sivaramakrishnan et al., 2019) are effective in improving the physical function and health related quality of life of older adults as well as wellness and wellbeing (Cartwright et al., 2020). Compared generally to other physical activity such as aerobics, walking and others, yoga is believed to have more holistic impact on older adults (Östh et al., 2019).