| The many benefits of yoga have long been stated | | | | to the control group who did no yoga. |
| by yoga gurus and teachers, but there have not | | | | This is great news for both people who do yoga and |
| been many scientific studies to prove this. Lots of | | | | those with asthma, to improve your medical condition |
| yoga practitioners rave about how great they feel | | | | after ten weeks is quite amazing and to do so |
| and how many illnesses and symptoms have | | | | without any change in medication or procedures is |
| improved or disappeared after months and years of | | | | wonderful. This is an improvement assessable to |
| yoga practice. | | | | everyone although any exercise program should |
| A recent study has shown clear benefits from regular | | | | obviously be discussed with your doctor first. |
| yoga practice on asthma symptoms. The study | | | | Yoga can be adapted to consider any disability with a |
| completed this year in New York followed two | | | | good yoga teacher; it is advisable to take some |
| groups of people with asthma and no other | | | | classes before using any home DVDs. The study |
| significant types of difference. There was a control | | | | group practiced three times a week, two classes and |
| group consisting of 20 people who did not follow the | | | | one home session equaling 165 minutes a week. I |
| yoga practice. After a ten week period the group of | | | | really want this information out there to help others, |
| 20 doing regular yoga showed an improvement of 43 | | | | as a yoga practitioner and someone with asthma, I |
| percent in heart rate variability, oxygen consumption | | | | consider yoga to be essential to my general well |
| and ventilation whilst performing two tasks compared | | | | being and health. |