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Andrew Herfst

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The meaning of the lived experience of nonattachment for long-term yoga practitioners

cIRcle (University of British Columbia) 2017 Andrew Herfst

Yoga is a popular alternative mental health intervention and an integral component of leading mindfulness-based interventions. Yoga helps with concerns like anxiety and depression (e.g., Field, 2011), but we do not yet understand how it helps. With the aim of developing more potent theoretical models of therapeutic yoga, there have been calls in the literature to explore yoga’s underlying...