In my classes I often refer to the effects and outcomes of various practices. Here I’ve gathered some of the research I’m aware of that explores the effects of yoga and other similar practices. And some of it is just interesting 😁.
I will continue to add and share what I learn.
Study: Insular Cortex Mediates Increased Pain Tolerance in Yoga Practitioners
https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article/24/10/2732/307000?login=false
“North American yogis tolerated pain more than twice as long as individually matched controls and had more gray matter (GM) in multiple brain regions.”
Research Article: The Origins of Personal Responsibility Rhetoric in News Coverage of the Tobacco Industry.
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301754?journalCode=ajph
“…illustrates that the tobacco industry’s use of personal responsibility rhetoric in public preceded the ascension of personal responsibility rhetoric commonly associated with the Reagan Administration in the 1980s.”
Research Report: Brief, daily meditation enhances attention, memory, mood, and emotional regulation in non-experienced meditators
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016643281830322X?via%3Dihub
“Here we explore a range of cognitive and physiological changes associated with brief, daily mediation practice as well as the time course of these effects.”