The Scientific Rationale and Evidence for Yoga as Preventive Medicine

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LEARN FROM A MASTER TEACHER & SCHOLAR

Join Sat Bir S. Khalsa, PhD, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of yoga research for Yoga Alliance, for an informative, research-based presentation on the science of yoga.  

Yoga is becoming increasingly popular as a behavioral strategy for the promotion and maintenance of health and wellness—and as preventive medicine. Application of yoga interventions provide psychophysiological and clinical outcomes that are not currently readily available within the repertoire of modern medicine, including:

• Improvements in physical flexibility and self-efficacy.
• Respiratory function, stress reduction, and coping.
• Resilience to stress, emotion regulation, mind-body awareness and mindfulness.
• Subjective well-being, quality of life, and life meaning and purpose. 

Many of these outcomes underlie the behavioral and lifestyle-related risk factors for chronic noncommunicable diseases, which are reaching epidemic proportions and represent the greatest burden in mortality and cost in modern healthcare.

This one-night, online program will overview the scientific evidence on the underlying mechanisms of yoga practice supporting the rationale for these preventive applications of yoga. It will also review the published clinical trial evidence for its efficacy in disease prevention.