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Showing 1 to 20 of 211 for “"yoga"”.
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Yoga practice in 21st century Britain: The lived experience of yoga practitioners
… investigates the nature of ‘the self’ modern yoga practitioners cultivate. This ontological question is further divided into three sub-questions to find the answer stepby- step. They are: (1) How yoga practice influences practitioners' health and wellbeing; (2) How yoga practice influences the …
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Yoga e reabilitação cardíaca
O Yoga atua melhorando a capacidade física, o equilíbrio emocional e promovendo mudanças de hábitos de vida, tendo, portanto, propostas semelhantes às dos Programas de Reabilitação Cardíaca, podendo ser usado como uma alternativa a eles em países com baixo nível socioeconômico. Através de uma …
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Exploring Yoga and the Flow Experience: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Contemporary Yoga Communities
… research demonstrating the positive effects of yoga, little is known about the lived experience of modern yoga practitioners. Yoga is rooted in philosophical and spiritual traditions but has been diluted in its transition to the modern postural yoga practiced in the West today. Existing research …
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Metabolic Cost of Hatha Yoga
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Acute hemodynamic responses to yoga exercise
… hemodynamic responses to twenty-three select yoga postures in advanced and novice yoga practitioners. Additionally, we sought to determine if trunk flexibility is related to arterial stiffness. Using a cross-sectional study design, 37 apparently healthy adults (26 females and 11 males; 22-71 …
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Yoga for Pediatric Cancer Out-Patients
… treatments. Although there are many types of PA, yoga is increasingly being recognized as a beneficial component of care. The objectives of this 12-week theory-based yoga intervention were to: (i) determine the feasibility and impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL); (ii) explore the …
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The influence of yoga therapy on anxiety
… of its effectiveness and minimal expense of yoga therapy as a treatment for anxiety, such reports lack any substantial evidence base. This relative gap in the scientific literature provided motivation for the present research. It was hypothesised that the influence of yoga therapy would …
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Yogic Agency: The Yoga in Composition and Rhetoric
… methods like mindfulness meditation and yoga may offer perspectives that inform pedagogy. But, these interventions often lack concrete applicability to course content, oversimplify theoretical foundation of the original Eastern practices, and seem disparate from, rather than integral to, …
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Merging yoga and occupational therapy for Parkinson's disease
… for people with Parkinson's disease (Merging Yoga and Occupational Therapy for Parkinson's Disease [MY-OT for PD]), conduct a feasibility and pilot study, and analyze outcomes following the MY-OT for PD program. Method: This dissertation includes three studies. Study One was a qualitative …
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A yoga intervention program for HIV/AIDS caregivers
… levels and their psychological well-being. A yoga intervention program was implemented with a sample of caregivers at the Holy Cross Hospice, Emoyeni, in Zululand. The effectiveness of the program was evaluated using both qualitative and quantitative measures. Overall, this yoga intervention …
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Dharmamegha Samadhi in the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali.
… meaning of the terminology employed within the Yoga Sutra provokes much academic debate. This dissertation aims to examine the meaning and use of the term dharmamegha samadhi within the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. This new exploration of these terms is prompted by Ranganathan’s (2008) idea that …
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T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", and Yoga Philosophy
… T.S. Eliot put a year into deep study of the <em>Yoga Sutras</em> with renowned scholar James Haughton Woods. Yoga, defined in the <em>Sutras</em> as the practice of stopping “the fluctuations of the mind-stuff” (Patañjali 8), provides the possibility of hope and equanimity in Eliot’s poem …
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Yoga practitioners’ emotion regulation, mindfulness, and empathetic ability
… study is to determine whether the practice of yoga is associated with enhanced emotion regulation and empathy, and if the relationship between these variables is mediated by mindfulness. It was hypothesized that the participants with more yoga experience will show more skillful emotion …
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