Weekly Assignment 3: Yoga and Mental Health
Topics:
- Change agents
- Personality types
- Faulty thinking
- Refuting irrational thoughts
- Yoga
Watch the video on Yoga and Mental Health. If you are able, practice the yoga poses that the instructor introduces. Once you are complete, answer the following questions.
- Describe the research study the yoga instructor provides as an example.
- What is the reason the yoga instructor gives for pursuing yoga as a healing technique?
- What medical benefits can yoga have for patients?
- Which patients would benefit the most from practicing yoga?
- If you were able to participate, how did the yoga practice make you feel? Describe your emotional and physical symptoms.
- Describe how yoga could be used in nursing practice.