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?

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.

1. Describe the research study the yoga instructor provides as an example.
2. What is the reason the yoga instructor gives for pursuing yoga as a healing technique?
3. What medical benefits can yoga have for patients?
4. Which patients would benefit the most from practicing yoga?
5. If you were able to participate, how did the yoga practice make you feel? Describe your emotional and physical symptoms.
6. Describe how yoga could be used in nursing practice.