{"id":20788,"date":"2018-11-22T23:24:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T23:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/articles-4260-en\/yoga-relieves-anxiety-and-depression-in-women\/"},"modified":"2018-11-22T23:24:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T23:24:46","slug":"yoga-relieves-anxiety-and-depression-in-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/yoga-relieves-anxiety-and-depression-in-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga relieves anxiety and depression in women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads5\/noiembrie\/22\/17818.jpg\" align=\"center\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Yoga may help to reduce anxiety and depression in women, according to a study presented at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America Conference 2015 in Miami.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  Lindsey B. Hopkins-Deboer, PhD, of the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and colleagues examined the impact of Bikram yoga, which is a form of HATHA YOGA, on 52 women, between the ages of 25 and 45, who had elevated anxiety and moderate depression. The women were yoga novices, and none has a history of anorexia, bipolar disorder, or psychosis.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  The women were randomly assigned to either two Bikram yoga classes lasting 90 minutes each week or a wait-list control group. The participants in the yoga group showed greater decreases in anxiety, stress and negative effect.<br \/>\n  Results also indicated that yoga&#8217;s impact on stress and depression were greater for African-American women than for non African-American women.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Clinicians treating women who are stressed, anxious, and depressed should consider investigating some form of yoga therapy&#8221; Hopkins-DeBoer told Medscape Medical News. &#8220;I think yoga pairs nicely alongside psychotherapy for depressed mood and anxiety and stress in women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>yogaesoteric<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>November 22, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoga may help to reduce anxiety and depression in women, according to a study presented at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America Conference 2015 in Miami. Lindsey B. Hopkins-Deboer, PhD, of the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and colleagues examined the impact of Bikram yoga, which is a form of HATHA YOGA, on 52 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-4260-en-health-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}