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How Yoga Might Relieve Stress-Linked Ailments
Posted: March 15, 2012 at 9:08 pm
60-Second Health | Health
Yoga may increase parasympathetic nervous system activity and neurotransmitter levels, helping to decrease symptoms of some stress-related illnesses. Katherine Harmon reports
March 13, 2012
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Yoga and relaxation practices have been around for thousands of years. And modern research suggests that yoga could have a very real impact on many stress-related illnesses, including anxiety, depression and heart disease.
And here's another reason to be down with downward-facing dog. Stress can make symptoms of chronic pain and depression worse. But yoga might be able to help, in part by stimulating the cranial nerve and an important neurotransmitter called GABA. The new theory is in the journal Medical Hypotheses. [C. C. Streeter et al., "Effects of yoga on the autonomic nervous system, gamma-aminobutyric-acid, and allostasis in epilepsy, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder"]
Previous research had found that people who did yoga for 12 weeks had lower anxiety and reduced chronic pain than those who went for walks or had standard medical care alone. The yoga-ers also had higher levels of GABA.
The researchers are now testing just how well yoga, combined with conventional treatments, can actually improve symptoms of real medical and psychological conditions, including epilepsy, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. And that might generate news you can take sitting down. Preferably in a lotus pose.
Katherine Harmon
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Brooklyn naked yoga class gives men chance to shed their worries…and clothes
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A Brooklyn yoga instructor is taking his male students in a nude direction.
Every Tuesday night, Michael Gates teaches naked yoga to a small men-only class class in a secret South Park Slope location.
"Our clothes are costumes and armor," said Gates, 44. "Naked yoga is an interesting metaphor for letting go of the B.S."
Since opening his "Naked Space" studio in 2006, Gates has seen it all: From men who strip out of their cloths in an instant, to guys who wouldn't dare tell their wives their weekly yoga class is with nude dudes.
"There are guys who are afraid to tell their wives because they think she'll leave him," said Gates. "I mean, she knows he's taking yoga classes with a group of guys, but suddenly he's naked and it's a big deal."
For just $20, about six guys usually show up to shed their worries, anxieties, and clothing for a 90-minute intermediate yoga session in Gates simple studio. Private sessions cost $100.
Gates said having his clients naked allows him to better study students' form and alignment.
The technique works well for the regulars.
"I like being naked," said Tom B., 49, who treks all the way from the Upper West Side every week for the naked yoga class.
"By being naked without the rest of your clothes, it allows you to experience the body in all the poses."
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Yoga: Don’t bend until you break
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Pam Schulte, owner of Just Practice Yoga, acknowledges that she and her students have suffered the occasional injury from yoga.
"Well duh," she said. "Have you seen what people do in those classes? This idea that yoga is this holier-than-thou regimen where no one should ever get injured is not realistic. It's not realistic to think that way about anything."
Yoga has been practiced for thousands of years in India and has exploded in the U.S. in the past two decades. According to a survey by the National Institutes for Health, more than 13 million American adults did some form of the discipline in 2006, a number that has likely increased.
But researchers only began taking a hard look at the discipline in the past decade. What they're finding is that while pretty much everyone could benefit from yoga, it's not the one-stop, cure-all regimen that many yogis say it is. And it can cause injuries, some quite serious.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported 5,500 yoga-related injuries in 2007. A chapter in William J. Broad's book "The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards" focuses on injuries sustained by veteran yogis, many serious enough to cause permanent damage and even paralysis.
Dr. Michael J. Milne, a surgeon with the Orthopedic Center of St. Louis and a team physician with the St. Louis Cardinals, is one of a number of local doctors who have seen patients who were injured on a yoga mat.
Most are nonsurgical injuries and include sprains and strains, Milne said. But he's also seen patients who have ruptured their Achilles tendons or torn the meniscus in their knees while doing the downward dog yoga position.
"A lot of times it's people who are new to yoga who have no flexibility and try to keep up with others in their class," he said.
He's also seen patients with torn rotator cuffs in the shoulder, who did not feel a sudden tear. They will often say that they started yoga a few months before their shoulder started hurting, Milne said.
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