Behavioral
- Reduced weight
- Reduced Nervousness
- Reduced Health complaints
- Increased clinical assessment of psychiatric patients
- Reduced psychological complaints
Physical
- Increased Hand steadiness
- Reduced reactivity to stressors Increased memory
- Increased flexibility
- Increased relaxation
- Reduced muscular electrical activity (EMG)
- Increased muscle tone
- Increased fitness
Mental
- Increased Concentration
- Increased memory
- Increased intelligence quotient
- Reduced mental fatigability
- Increased performance quotient
- increased shift in sequence of ideas
Physiological
- Increased Concentration Increased EEG Alpha
- Increased respiratory efficiency and competence
- Reduced oxygen consumption
- Reduced respiratory rate
- Increased lung capacity
- increased breathe holding time
- Increased tidal volume
- Increased cardiovascular efficiency
- reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure
- Reduced heart rate
- Increased blood flow
- increased immune system
Personality
- Reduced Anxiety
- Reduced depression
- Increased conflict resolution
- Increased openness to experience
- Reduced defensiveness
- Reduced guilt
- Reduced tension and instability
- Reduced hostility
- Reduced submissiveness
- Reduced self-criticism
- Increased assertiveness
- Increased body image
- increased self-esteem
Students who did yoga 4 times a week which included 10 mins of breathing exercises, 15mins of warm ups and 50 mins of posture work.
After just 8 weeks of yoga:-
- muscular strength had increased by 31%
- Stamina was up by 57%
- flexibility had increased by 188% !!
- Breathing capacities were also up by 7% which is very high for only 8 weeks of yoga.
Source: University of California Venice 2002
Ref Structural Yoga therapy by Mukunda Stiles