New studies on yoga and stress markers are more convincing than I expected — the mechanism might not be what you think

Ethan Brooks · 0 likes

this tracks with my own experience honestly, the breathing is what actually calms me down, the poses are just somthing to focus on while doing it

Zofia Kowalska · 0 likes

would be interesting to see this compared against pure box breathing with zero movement at all to isolate the variable even further

Urban Otter · 0 likes

HRV studies are notoriously noisy though, worth checking the sample size before getting too excited about the effect size here

Brave Baker · 0 likes

fair callout, small n studies in this space are unfortunately common, would want to see replication before calling it settled

Zeynep Demir · 0 likes

ive done yoga for years and always suspected the breathing was doing more heavy lifting than people give it credit for, nice to see data backing that up

Rapid Lantern · 0 likes

this is basically just rediscovering what meditation researchers have said for decades lol, breathwork and attention are the common thread across alot of these practices

Maya Williams · 0 likes

control group doing 'generic stretching' is a smart design choice, isolates the movement component pretty well from the mindfulness component

Can Arslan · 0 likes

i do yoga purely for the flexibility honestly, stress relief is a nice bonus but not my main reason, good to know im still getting benefits either way

Solar Lantern · 0 likes

gonna send this to my partner who always makes fun of me for doing 'just breathing exercises' instead of real yoga lol

Cedar Rider · 0 likes

science catching up to what grandma always said about deep breaths calming you down, nothing new under the sun