Yoga & Health
What is yoga?
Yoga is a health practice that combines mental focus, controlled breathing, and body movements to help relax the body and the mind. For this reason, it may be used to help controlled pain, stress, anxiety, and depression, and for overall health. Mind-body practices include meditation, hypnosis, guided imagery, yoga, and tai chi. Mind and body practice is a type of complementary and alternative medicine, also called mind-body modality.
Yoga In Healthcare to foster self-care
Non-communicable diseases are responsible for 70% of deaths worldwide. As a result, they are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in Europe. Most importantly, the healthcare systems should reinforce patients’ self-care and healing capacity. Patients would profit from the inclusion of complementary therapeutic approaches, such as Yoga.
1 Source: WHO
2 Morbidity: the number of people who have a particular disease (Oxford Dictionary)
About the benefits of Yoga in Health
a mind and body practice
Yoga is a mind-body practice based on physical postures (asanas), breathing exercises (pranayama), deep relaxation and meditation. Consequently, together these techniques promote well-being by reducing the negative effects of physical and mental stress. For instance, it increases individual awareness and consciousness empowering people to establish more positive attitudes and lifestyles.
reduces back pain conditions
Reduces disability and pain of non-specific low back pain conditions;
decreases cardiovascular risk
Decreases cardiovascular risk factors: overweight, smoking, hypertension and type 2 diabetes indexes;
better sleep
Improves body awareness and happiness;
lessens depression
Lessens depression and regulates emotions in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder;
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