The benefits of yoga.
Scientific researchers continually produce new studies that validate the benefits of yoga
Below are a sample of studies
Yoga increases quality of life
“yogic practices enhance muscular strength and body flexibility, promote and improve respiratory and cardiovascular function, promote recovery from and treatment of addiction, reduce stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain, improve sleep patterns, and enhance overall well-being and quality of life.”
— C. Woodyard, International Journal of Yoga, 2011
Yoga supports healthy lifestyle habits
“yoga may be a useful intervention for improving health behaviors or life-style-related health conditions. Frequency of home practice appears to be very important—more important than how long an individual has been practicing or how many classes one takes. This emphasizes a simple fact: it is not enough simply to learn how to do healthy behaviors. Rather, healthy behaviors must be incorporated into one's daily life.”
— A. Ross, E. Friedmann, M. Bevan, S. Thomas, Hindawi, 2012
Restorative yoga aids in reducing subcutaneous fat
“restorative yoga reduces levels of cortisol, which rises during times of stress and is known to increase abdominal fat.”
— M.K. Carrey, American Journal of Managed Care, 2013
Yoga supports improved health outcomes
“The studies comparing the effects of yoga and exercise seem to indicate that, in both healthy and diseased populations, yoga may be as effective as or better than exercise at improving a variety of health-related outcome measures.”