Ashtanga yoga for children and adolescents for weight management and psychological well being: An uncontrolled open pilot study

Benavides, Sandra; Caballero, Joshua

doi:10.1016/j.ctcp.2008.12.004

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“…49 A 5-month multicomponent behavioral intervention with yoga was associated with significant decreases in BMI z scores (−0.15 in z score in intervention participants compared with −0.08 in usual care participants; P = .01) among obese adolescent girls. 50 After 12 weeks of yoga among 20 teenagers, weight decreased by 2 kg, 51 and after 16 weeks there were similar decreases in weight among 53 obese adolescent girls. 52 Thus, there have been few studies on the relation between yoga and weight emotions); and (e) nonreactivity to inner experience (allowing thoughts and feelings to come and go, without attention getting caught up in them).…”

Section: Weight Loss and Management Of Comorbid Conditionssupporting

confidence: 62%

Yoga in the Management of Overweight and Obesity

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Ehrman

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American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

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Although yoga may help manage conditions comorbid with overweight and obesity, such as low back pain, whether yoga helps with weight loss or maintenance beyond that which can be achieved with diet and exercise remains unclear. A search of multiple databases through September 2012 was undertaken identifying peerreviewed studies on yoga, meditation, mindfulness, obesity, and overweight. Studies on yoga and weight loss are challenged by small sample sizes, short durations, and lack of control groups. In addition, there is little consistency in terms of duration of formal group yoga practice sessions, duration of informal practices at home, and frequency of both. Studies do however suggest that yoga may be associated with weight loss or maintenance. Mechanisms by which yoga may assist with weight loss or maintenance include the following: (a) energy expenditure during yoga sessions; (b) allowing for additional exercise outside yoga sessions by reducing back and joint pain; (c) heightening mindfulness, improving mood, and reducing stress, which may help reduce food intake; and (d) allowing individuals to feel more connected to their bodies, leading to enhanced awareness of satiety and the discomfort of overeating. Thus, yoga appears promising as a way to assist with behavioral change, weight loss, and maintenance.

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Section: Weight Loss and Management Of Comorbid Conditionssupporting

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Yoga in the Management of Overweight and Obesity

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American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

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“…Considering our found responses about body awareness and dietary changes, future work should evaluate yoga's ability to mitigate or prevent childhood obesity and disordered eating habits; a next research step supported by other published work. [35][36][37] In addition, students reported that the program met them where they were and felt benefits appear to be context dependent. For example, students spoke of either academic or athletic performance, not both, suggesting that those who focused on athletics found yoga benefit there while those that focused on academic performance found yoga benefit there.…”

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Qualitative Evaluation of a High School Yoga Program: Feasibility and Perceived Benefits

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“…The focus on sensory experiences is at the core of many movement-based practices such as yoga. Ashtanga yoga (AY) is a branch of Hatha yoga focusing on physical exercise and non-visual experience of the body in space (Benavides and Caballero, 2009; Varambally and Gangadhar, 2012). Like other yoga experts, AY practitioners are involved in meditative practices (David et al, 2014).…”

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Processing of proprioceptive and vestibular body signals and self-transcendence in Ashtanga yoga practitioners

Fiori

David

Aglioti

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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In the rod and frame test (RFT), participants are asked to set a tilted visual linear marker (i.e., a rod), embedded in a square, to the subjective vertical, irrespective of the surrounding frame. People not influenced by the frame tilt are defined as field-independent, while people biased in their rod verticality perception are field-dependent. Performing RFT requires the integration of proprioceptive, vestibular and visual signals with the latter accounting for field-dependency. Studies indicate that motor experts in body-related, balance-improving disciplines tend to be field-independent, i.e., better at verticality perception, suggesting that proprioceptive and vestibular expertise acquired by such exercise may weaken the influence of irrelevant visual signals. What remains unknown is whether the effect of body-related expertise in weighting perceptual information might also be mediated by personality traits, in particular those indexing self-focusing abilities. To explore this issue, we tested field-dependency in a class of body experts, namely yoga practitioners and in non-expert participants. Moreover we explored any link between performance on RFT and self-transcendence (ST), a complex personality construct, which refers to tendency to experience spiritual feelings and ideas. As expected, yoga practitioners (i) were more accurate in assessing the rod's verticality on the RFT, and (ii) expressed significantly higher ST. Interestingly, the performance in these two tests was negatively correlated. More specifically, when asked to provide verticality judgments, highly self-transcendent yoga practitioners were significantly less influenced by a misleading visual context. Our results suggest that being highly self-transcendent may enable yoga practitioners to optimize verticality judgment tasks by relying more on internal (vestibular and proprioceptive) signals coming from their own body, rather than on exteroceptive, visual cues.

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Ashtanga yoga for children and adolescents for weight management and psychological well being: An uncontrolled open pilot study

Cited by 62 publications

References 16 publications

Yoga in the Management of Overweight and Obesity

Yoga in the Management of Overweight and Obesity

Qualitative Evaluation of a High School Yoga Program: Feasibility and Perceived Benefits

Processing of proprioceptive and vestibular body signals and self-transcendence in Ashtanga yoga practitioners

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