Medical Yoga Therapy for Your Health and Brain
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Medical yoga can improve brain centers which are responsible for sleeping and stress relief.
According to this study from Massachusetts General Hospital by Britta K. Hölzel et al. they found that s...
tress reduction in study participants correlates with structural changes in the amygdala – an area of the brain which is responsible for emotional processing. Participants of this study underwent 8 week program of excercises which included medical yoga and sitting meditation.
If we move forward and look not only on hippocampus, in brain volume measurement study it was proven that long-term practice of yoga meditation is associated with larger brain volume overall, and with enlargement in brain regions that are associated with sustained attention, self-control, compassion and perception.
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