Routledge eBooks
January 20, 2023
Jeff Crockett
Vocal Traditions is a series in the Voice and Speech Review that highlights historically important voice teachers and schools of thought in the world of vocal pedagogy. In this essay, the author offers a voice pedagogy based on Middendorf Breathwork including an overview, history, teaching style and philosophy, exercises, and next steps in training.
Scientific Reports
January 9, 2023
Guy William Fincham, Clara Strauss, Jesus Montero-Marin et al.
Deliberate control of the breath (breathwork) has recently received an unprecedented surge in public interest and breathing techniques have therapeutic potential to improve mental health. Our meta-analysis primarily aimed to evaluate the efficacy of breathwork through examining whether, and to what extent, breathwork interventions were associated with lower levels of self-reported/subjective...
International Research Journal of Ayurveda & Yoga
2023
Shambhu Dayal
In India, rates of anxiety are quite high in the general population with women, young adults and the elderly particularly vulnerable. In recent years, Holistic approaches are gaining increasing popularity in the management of psychiatric disorders. Yoga is among the oldest sciences with a holistic approach and hence, has been studied extensively in psychiatry. This increase in popularity is...
International Research Journal of Ayurveda & Yoga
2023
P. Yadav
Background -People's lifestyles have become very mechanical in the modern day. Everyone is in a rat race to meet their goals, which causes stress. The repercussions of this stress on a person's physical and mental health are further. The healthy development of emotional attitudes and personality that coexist peacefully with the entire society or community is what is meant by mental health....
Cureus
September 1, 2022
M. Lata, Himel Mondal, Manish Kumar et al.
Background Medical education is a rigorous formal education with a vast syllabus. Burnout and stresses are common among medical students and more prominent in females. Female medical students suffer from a higher level of stress than male medical students. For the improvement of physical and mental health, meditation, pranayama, and yoga are some of the ancient techniques. Meditation is a...
medRxiv
August 28, 2022
Dr. Rakesh Sarwal, R. Dhamija, K. Jain et al.
preprint
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unparalleled challenges for health systems worldwide, the impact of which has also been borne by the Healthcare Professionals (HCPs). Numerous studies have revealed the positive effects of Pranayama and Meditation on mental health. The effect of Pranayama in improving mental health of frontline HCP exposed to Covid-19 patients has not been studied....
Technium Social Sciences Journal
August 8, 2022
Eleni Mitsea, Athanasios Drigas, Charalampos Skianis
The purpose of the current review study is to shed light on the relationship between breathing and learning disabilities, to investigate the efficacy of breathwork as an intervention strategy, and finally, to identify the role of assistive technologies in breathing training interventions. The results of this study revealed a close relationship between breathing problems and learning, mental...
AYUSHDHARA
July 8, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has transferred the outlook of every individual toward materialistic things. After each departing day, there are some points for optimism and agony both. The Covid-19 has changed the mental makeup due to sudden lock down and crises in the economy. Researchers are doing their best to slow down this contagious disease. Slowly the recovery rate is also boosting up. Different...
International Journal of Health Sciences
June 9, 2022
C. Malathy, C. Ramesh
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the combined quiet breathing pranayama and meditation practices on self confidence among working men. To achieve the purpose of the study thirty working men were selected from Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India during the year 2022. The subject’s age ranges from 35 to 45 years. The selected subjects were randomly divided into two equal groups...
Revista Mexicana de Neurociencia
May 5, 2022
Viviana Chavez, Lenin Ochoa-de-la-Paz, Jorge Parodi
In recent years, the control of physiological processes has been strengthened, which show metabolic changes that can generate effects at a neuronal level. Our objective is to review what has been described as conscious breathing theory and how this can affect cognitive tasks, which have been described as very affected in adults and which reduce with age. However, we have begun to understand a...