Individuals who do yoga often report feeling happier, healthier and less stressed than ever before.
What do you love about yoga? Is it the regimen's soothing stretches and purifying deep-breathing exercises? Are you enamored with the way that yoga classes help you meet new friends and connect to your community? Or do you do yoga because it can help you improve your health outcome?
This latter capability is something for which the holistic system is widely renowned. Individuals who do yoga often report feeling happier, healthier and less stressed than ever before.
And those are just anecdotal reports! Scientific investigations have established that yoga really does improve health and wellness:
- For instance, a new study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine (and widely discussed thereafter) found that yoga exercises can reduce chronic lower back pain. One participant reported that "walking around is no longer a problem, and I can do my gardening now so long as I pace myself. I've even taken on an allotment with my daughter and son-in-law and no longer take pain killers."
- An investigation conducted at Indiana University determined that yoga techniques can help stroke victims regain some of their mobility and sense of balance.
- Yoga may even soothe away pain for patients undergoing radiation treatment for breast cancer, according to a report published by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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