Postural Influences on the Hormone Level in Healthy Subjects: I. The Cobra Posture and Steroid Hormones

Preparatory power posing affects nonverbal presence and job interview performance.

“…In contrast to low-power poses, adopting high-power poses boosts feelings of power, confidence, self-esteem, risk tolerance, mood, action orientation, memory for positive words and concepts, and pain tolerance, while reducing feelings of fear (Bohns & Wiltermuth, 2012;Carney, Cuddy, & Yap, 2010;Carney, Cuddy, & Yap, in press;Huang, Galinsky, Gruenfeld, & Guillory, 2011;Michalak, Rohde, & Troje, 2014;Nair, Sagar, Sollers, Consedine, & Broadbent, 2014;Park, Streamer, Huang, & Galinsky, 2013;Yap, Wazlawek, Lucas, Cuddy, & Carney, 2013). Holding an expansive posture also increases both salivary and blood serum levels of testosterone, a hormone associated with dominant and status-seeking behaviors, and decreases salivary and blood serum levels of cortisol, a hormone associated with stress, low social status, and relatively submissive behaviors (Carney et al, 2010;Minvaleev, Nozdrachev, Kir'yanova, & Ivanov, 2004; for a review of the social endocrinology research on testosterone, cortisol, and behavior, see Knight & Mehta, 2014). Moreover, enacting highpower poses produces stronger effects on thought abstraction and action orientation than do classic, explicit power manipulations that do not involve physical posture, such as role assignments and recall primes (Carney et al, in press;Huang et al, 2011).…”

Embodied values and ethical principles in somatic dance classes: Considering implicit motor learning

“…This type of movement has been described in psychological research on body language and reveals that people feel more powerful when performing expansive movement. Carney et al (2010Carney et al ( , 2015 commented that specifically 'holding an expansive yoga-style pose for two to three minutes significantly increases blood-serum levels of testosterone and decreases blood-serum levels of cortisol' (Minvaleev et al 2004). Thus, there is potential for integrated dance, yoga and somatic classes to intentionally use expansive movement phrases to reduce stress and increase a sense of confidence, agency and empowerment in dancers.…”

Yoga Based Lifestyle for Prevention of Medical Emergencies

“…They found that, during this position, the minute blood filling of the liver through the hepatic artery and portal vein remained unchanged while there occurred monophase nonpulsatory or pulsatory two-phase hepatic vein outflow instead of the usual triphase outflow with a partial return of blood to the liver. After the plough position , the common triphase hepatic vein outflow was fully restored; a therapeutic effect of this exercise was recorded when the initially changed monophase hepatic outflow (in a female patient with hepatitis in her case history) became triphase immediately after exercise (Minvaleev, Kuznetsov & Nozdrachev, 1998).…”