Improve Breast Cancer Survivors Physical and Psychological Health with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “physical activity after a breast cancer diagnosis has potentially “favorable influence on breast cancer incidence and outcome.” Yoga can not only be an effective, low-impact exercise, but it has also been shown in numerous studies to reduce […]
Improve Health in Unhealthy People with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Incorporating [yoga] into your routine can help enhance your health, increase strength and flexibility and reduce symptoms of stress, depression and anxiety. Finding the time to practice yoga just a few times per week may be enough to make a […]
Hot Yoga is Superior in Improving Cardiovascular Health By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “It might be hard, but hot yoga can help improve strength, flexibility and balance, while helping decrease your risk of conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.” – Lydia Stephens Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer, claiming […]
Improve Health and Healthy Behaviors with Yoga and Pilates By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Multiple studies have confirmed the many mental and physical benefits of yoga. Incorporating it into your routine can help enhance your health, increase strength and flexibility and reduce symptoms of stress, depression and anxiety.” – Rachael Link […]
Improve Physical and Mental Health with an Isha Yoga Retreat By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “As we have physical science to create external wellbeing there is a whole inner dimension of science to create inner wellbeing. I call it Inner Engineering.” – Sadhguru Retreat can be a powerful experience. But it can […]
Improve the Physical and Psychological Health of Patients with Cardiac Arrhythmias with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Exercise that revs up your heart rate isn’t the only kind of physical activity that can help prevent or manage heart disease. The calming exercise of yoga is good for the heart, too.” – […]
Yoga Improves Resident Physician Psychological Health But Doesn’t Appear to be Feasible and Acceptable. By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Slammed by long and unpredictable hours, heavy clinical workloads, fatigue and limited professional control, many medical residents experience stress and even burnout. And surveys indicate this burnout can seriously impact physician well-being and patient care outcomes.” […]
Yoga Practitioners Have Better Psychological Health During the Covid-19 Lockdown By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “the well understood underlying mechanisms for the use of yoga for stress reduction and immune modulation shall be considered as the basis for its complimentary role in the management of an infectious condition like COVID-19.“ – H. […]
Improve Mental Health and Blood Biomarker Levels with Meditation and Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “The main purpose of meditation is to access, recognize and enhance the positive qualities of mind. The more we can do this, the less we need to rely on external situations for our happiness and the […]
Yoga Improves Spirituality and Psychological Health Regardless of Instruction By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “While in the Western world most people recognize the more physical practices of yoga – particularly the poses, or asana – it is a practice that’s about much more than just our physical bodies. In Sanskrit language, the word “yoga” […]