Improve Psychomotor Perform of Intellectually Disabled Children with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Special needs experts agree that yoga activities make a positive impact on individuals with special needs. These activities improve mobility, strength, and digestion for individuals with disabilities.” – Cara Batema Intellectual disabilities involve below average intelligence and […]
Restrain Body Fatness Growth During Adolescence with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Practicing yoga changes your mind: It changes the way you approach life, your body, and eating. Yoga shows you how to appreciate your body for all of the amazing things that it can do for you and points you […]
Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Adolescents with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “But, after coming back to Vinyasa yoga, and making it a daily practice, my eating habits have completely changed. I now crave fruit, vegetables, whole grains and other yummy nutritional things. And I haven’t had to even think […]
Improve Teacher Mental Well-Being with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Yoga is a psychology—the whole practice helps us work with the nature of the mind, the nature of being a human, how emotions live in our bodies, how they affect our behavior and our minds,” – Ashley Turner Stress is […]
Improve Emotion Regulation and Gait in Obese Adolescents with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “consider how stressful it must be in this image driven media age to be an overweight or obese child or teen. The well documented stress reduction factors of yoga practice are a powerful start to transforming health […]
Improve Depression with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “for many patients dealing with depression, anxiety, or stress, yoga may be a very appealing way to better manage symptoms. Indeed, the scientific study of yoga demonstrates that mental and physical health are not just closely allied, but are essentially equivalent. The evidence […]
Improve College Students Responses to Stress with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Yoga is a practice of uniting the mind and physical body as one. It combines breathing exercise, meditation, and physical positions. This combination is believed to reduce many physical and mental ailments that are caused by stress.” – Rebecca […]
Mindfulness Plus Reflection Training Improves Thinking in Pre-School Children By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “When we teach mindfulness to children, we are sharing with them skillful ways of relating to life’s uncomfortable and challenging moments. The earlier we do so in their young lives, the greater the opportunity to help them cultivate resilience […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “A large part of being a human being is having social, emotional and attention skills and in the majority of schools I visit, we don’t actually teach kids how to pay attention or how to deal with their inner states in a healthy way. We just assume […]
Improve Children’s Absorption of Micronutrients with Yoga By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Aside from the physical benefits of yoga, yoga teaches teens techniques for coping with the unique issues they’re faced with everyday—insecurity about their changing bodies, the enormous pressure to fit in, stressful schedules, and uncertainty about their beliefs and their futures.” […]