International Journal of Yoga Therapy
January 2016
James W Carson, Kimberly M. Carson, Kim D Jones et al.
Published findings from a randomized controlled trial have shown that Mindful Yoga training improves symptoms, functional deficits, and coping abilities in individuals with fibromyalgia and that these benefits are replicable and can be maintained 3 months post-treatment. The aim of this study was to collect pilot data in female fibromyalgia patients (n = 7) to determine if initial evidence...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2016
Brandi M Crowe, Marieke Van Puymbroeck, Arlene A Schmid
Yoga facilitates relaxation and connection of mind, body, and spirit through the use of breathing, meditation, and physical postures. Participation in yoga has been extensively linked to decreased stress, and as a result, is considered a therapeutic intervention by many. However, few theories exist that explain the link between yoga participation and improved psychosocial wellbeing. The...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2013
Heather Eastman-Mueller, Terry Wilson, Ae-Kyung Jung et al.
Objectives: There is evidence that yoga practice is associated with decreased stress, worry, and depression, and with improved mindfulness-based skills. These findings had not been previously replicated for a sample of college students. This study evaluated whether iRest yoga-nidra practice was associated with reduced perceived stress, worry, and depression, and increased mindfulness in a...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
September 1, 2011
L. Stankovic
83 citations
This eight-week study examined the feasibility of offering weekly classes in Integrative Restoration (iRest), a form of mindfulness meditation, to military combat veterans at a community mental health agency in the San Francisco Bay Area. Participants were 16 male combat veterans (15 Vietnam War and 1 Iraq War) of mixed ethnicity, aged 41 to 66 years, suffering from posttraumatic stress...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
September 1, 2011
Janet Hennard
21 citations
Fibromyalgia is a chronic syndrome characterized by widespread pain, sleep disturbance, stiffness, fatigue, headache, and mood disorders. Recent research has resulted in an improved understanding of fibromyalgia and its possible causes. This article highlights some of the current research, discusses a strategy for using yoga and meditation as a therapy for fibromyalgia sufferers, and presents...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
September 1, 2011
Molly Lannon Kenny, Staffan Elgelid, Bidyut Bose
1 citation
By July of 2000, I was done with my job as a clinician. Having worked for over six years as a speech-language pathologist at one of the country's largest HMOs, I felt burned out, turned off, and depleted. It wasn't that I didn't like the work—I did. In fact, I loved the opportunity to come into people's lives and help them with whatever life challenges brought them to my office. What I had...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2010
R. Ramadoss, Bidyut Bose
39 citations
Two pilot studies demonstrate that a comprehensive multimodality intervention of Transformative Life Skills (TLS) consisting of Yoga poses (asana), breathing techniques (pranayama), and meditation (dhyana) can reduce perceived stress and increase self-control and self-awareness in at-risk and incarcerated youth. As part of a countywide violence prevention effort, Niroga Institute conducted...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2010
Kelley Delaney, Kristine Anthis
This study examined the relationship between women's participation in different types of Yoga classes and different facets of body image. Ninety-two women at five different sites of Yoga instruction completed assessments of Yoga experience, internalization of Yoga principles, body satisfaction, body awareness, body consciousness, and eating attitudes. Yoga experience was coded according to...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
October 1, 2009
Kait Philbin
3 citations
Grief and bereavement are universal human experiences that can have profound effects on body, mind, and spirit. Yoga, as part of a therapeutic approach, can help relieve suffering during the grieving process. This article describes one approach to offering Yoga as a therapy for grief and bereavement. Transpersonal Integrative Yoga Therapy is a multidimensional group protocol that combines Yoga...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2004
Scott Blossom
Research in the field of psychoneuroimmunology has helped to build confidence among members of the conventional medical community regarding the concrete positive effects that stress management, counseling, meditation,and Hatha-Yoga can play in treating disease and promoting health. The "discoveries" in this field are echoing a major theme in yogic scriptures—that the mind plays a central role...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
2002
Barbara Newborn
Life-threatening illness throws many survivors into chaos, dramatically altering and affecting their lives. They are physically and mentally forced out of their daily living routine to figure out other ways of doing things. Everything around them is falling apart. They feel cut off—physically and mentally isolated—without having any sense of belonging. The situation, however, does not have to...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
1999
Roy King, Ann Brownstone
Recent neuroimaging studies of brain function have led to an explosion of knowledge about psychological processes and states. In this paper functional brain imaging studies of Yoga meditation are reviewed. Tantra-based meditations activate frontal and occipital cortical regions involved in focused, sustained attention and visual imagery. The overall pattern of brain activation in Tantra-based...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
1999
Subhash Kak, Georg Feuerstein
For the past several years, I have come across occasional references to quantum neurophysiology, not least in your own academic papers on the subject. It seems to me that this emerging field of inquiry is relevant to Yoga and even Yoga therapy. Can you please state briefly the principal concerns (and raison d'être) of quantum neurophysiology? How do these concerns complement, complete, or even...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
1998
John M. Miller, Ken Fletcher, Jon Kabat‐zinn
81 citations
A previous study of 22 medical patients with DSM-III-R-defined anxiety disorders showed clinically and statistically significant improvements in subjective and objective symptoms of anxiety and panic following an 8-week outpatient physician-referred group stress reduction intervention based on mindfulness meditation. Twenty subjects demonstrated significant reductions in Hamilton and Beck...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
1998
Swami Sivananda Radha, Swami Gopalananda
Although we live in a century of great technological advancement, our knowledge about the body is still in its infancy. We see the body largely as a mechanical instrument, which to some extent is true, when you think of the repairs that now can be made: artificial steel hips, bonding plastic to bones, and many more modern techniques. But let us assume that the body is more than just a...
International Journal of Yoga Therapy
1995
Estelle Jacobson, Jim Dreaver, Richard Miller et al.
*Jon Kabat-Zinn whose latest book, 'Wherever You Go There You Are", has become a best seller and which teaches stress reduction through meditation and Yoga. *When I came across Eleanor Criswell's book I had already been a yoga devotee for many years, and more recently a student of somatic education, Naturally, I was interested in Dr. Criswell's "somatic" perspective on yoga, and how it was...