Progressive Lingual Frenotomy in Yogic Practice

Nidrâ yoga is an ancient yogic practice capable of inducing altered states of consciousness characterized by deep relaxation, strong concentration, acute self-awareness, and joy. In modern contemplative neuroscience language, it is known by the name yoga nidra, and few studies have investigated its phenomenological and psychophysiological effects. Six healthy volunteers (four females aged 31–74) performed 12 yoga nidra sessions guided by an expert during a 6-day retreat. Each session consisted of 10 minutes in a resting state (baseline) followed by 2 hours of yoga nidra. Psychometric data regarding dissociative experiences (Clinician Administered Dissociative States Scale) and the state of consciousness (Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory) were collected after baseline and yoga nidra, while high-density EEG was recorded during the entire session. During nidra sessions, no sleep hallmarks (i.e., K-complexes and sleep spindles) were detected by the EEG in any subject. Psychometric data we re analyzed using a Wilcoxon signed-rank test corrected with the false discovery rate approach for multiple comparisons. Compared to baseline, yoga nidra practice was related to: (1) increased dissociative effects (p = 0.022); (2) perception of being in an altered state of consciousness (p = 0.026); (3) alterations in perceived body image (p = 0.022); (4) increased “meaningfulness” attributed to the experience (p = 0.026); (5) reduced rational thinking (p = 0.029); and (6) reduced volitional thought control (p = 0.026). First-person experience is discussed in relation to descriptive EEG power spectral density analysis, which was performed in one subject because of severe EEG artifacts in the other recordings; that subject showed, compared to baseline: (1) early increase of alpha and beta power, followed by a progressive widespread reduction; (2) widespread early increase of theta power, followed by a progressive reduction; and (3) widespread increase of gamma power in the latest stages. The present preliminary results enrich the knowledge of yoga nidra, elucidating its phenomenology and suggesting some psychophysiological correlates that future studies may address.

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Effects of Yogic practices on cardiovascular system and salivary alpha amylase on Indian healthy jail inmates

Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine ◽

10.1515/jcim-2020-0279 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Khushbu Jain ◽

Rameswar Pal ◽

Sachendra Badoni ◽

Jitender Kaushik ◽

Pooja Kumari Gond ◽

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Keyword(s):

Blood Pressure ◽

Systolic Blood Pressure ◽

Diastolic Blood Pressure ◽

Mean Blood Pressure ◽

Alpha Amylase ◽

Female Group ◽

Jail Inmates ◽

Double Product ◽

Salivary Alpha Amylase ◽

Yogic Practice

Abstract Objectives Imprisoned people usually have a poor health status and an increase risk to suffer chronic debilitating conditions, co-infection due to their limitations in physical activity and mental disturbances. This study was carried to find out the health impacts of Yogic practice of Indian healthy jail inmates. Methods It was interventional single group pre-post design study. A total no of 30, Jail inmates including 08 female were participated in this study and practiced Yoga for six months. Body Mass Index, Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Salivary alpha amylase activity (SAA) a stress marker were assessed before, after three months and after completion of six months of Yogic practice. Results Improvement was noted in all parameters, but significant improvement was noted in systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean blood pressure, double product a index of load in the heart and SAA following Yogic practice in total participants. Significant improvement was also noted in systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, mean blood pressure, double product a index of load in the heart and SAA following Yogic practice in male group. No significant effect was noted in female group. Conclusions The present study revealed that regular Yogic practice resulted in reduction blood pressure, load in the heart and stress in mail jail inmates, when it is practiced regularly and carefully.

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Mink Snopes’s Shavasana: Body, Relation, and Exchange in Faulkner’s Economies of Being

Faulkner and Money ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496822529.003.0010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 138-155

Author(s):

Ryan Heryford

Keyword(s):

Open Market ◽

Us South ◽

Yogic Practice ◽

The Earth ◽

The Us ◽

Historical Transition

This chapter will argue for Faulkner's use of bodies, both living and dead, in complicating the historical transition from an economy of relation to an economy of exchange in the US South.Exploring both the corporeal ambiguity of characters like Thomas Sutpen, DarlBundren, Flem and Ike Snopes, as well as a general poetics of bodies across Faulkner's writings, where characters fall into a rhetorical or mythic assembly with the earth itself, what in yogic practice is often referred to as shavasanaor "corpse pose," this chapter will suggest that the bodies of Faulkner's fiction offer a different narrative of the post-1865 US South, as a place of precarity and possibility, where communities and individuals had to redefine and re-inhabit new modes of personhood, agency, and subjectivity in an emergent open market.

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Yoga, Ahimsa and Consuming Animals: UK Yoga Teachers’ Beliefs about Farmed Animals and Attitudes to Plant-Based Diets

Animals ◽

10.3390/ani10030480 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 480

Author(s):

Jenny L. Mace ◽

Steven P. McCulloch

Keyword(s):

Moral Status ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Animal Products ◽

Ancient India ◽

Yogic Practice ◽

Sequential Mixed Methods ◽

Teachers Beliefs ◽

Health Related ◽

Philosophical Framework ◽

Progressive Beliefs

Yoga is a holistic discipline originating in ancient India. Yoga has links with Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism based on a shared philosophical framework of unity with all beings and belief in ahimsa, meaning non-harming. There is debate in the international yoga community about the spiritual, ethical and health-related links between yoga and plant-based diets. This mixed methodology research investigates the beliefs about the moral status of farmed animals and attitudes towards plant-based diets of UK yoga teachers. A sequential mixed-methods design employing a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews is used. This paper focuses on the questionnaire-based phase of the research. Key results are: (i) UK yoga teachers have very progressive beliefs about the moral status of farmed animals; (ii) 29.6% of UK yoga teachers follow a plant-based diet (n = 446), which is 25-fold the proportion in the wider UK population; (iii) 73.9% desire to follow a plant-based diet; (iv) 68.6% regard plant-based diets as best aligned to their yogic practice; and (v) UK yoga teachers with more progressive beliefs about farmed animals and with more self-reported knowledge of agriculture abstain from consuming animal products to a greater extent. The far higher proportions of UK yoga teachers following vegetarian and plant-based diets, relative to the wider population, are likely based on applying yogic teachings such as the principle of ahimsa through abstaining from the consumption of animal products.

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EFFECT OF YOGIC PRACTIES ON SELECTED HAEMOGLOBIN VARIABLES OF COLLEGE WOMEN STUDENTS

10.36106/ijar/6812835 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

M. Saradha

Keyword(s):

Women Students ◽

College Women ◽

Training Programme ◽

T Test ◽

Control Group ◽

Yogic Practice ◽

Practice Group ◽

Group I ◽

College Of Technology ◽

Experimental Group

The purpose of the study was to nd out the effect of yogic practices on selected Haemoglobin variables of college women students. To resolve the purpose of the study 40 college women were randomly selected from Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore. Their age ranged between 18 and 22 years. The selected subjects were randomly divided into two groups consisting of twenty each. No attempt was made to equate the groups. Experimental Group I underwent Yogic practices and Meditation for a period of 16 weeks. Group II acted as control group (CG) and were not engaged in any training programme other than their work. The subjects were free to withdraw their consent in case of feeling any discomfort during the period of their participation but there was no dropout during the study. The Haemoglobin variables were selected and tested through TCDC and Shalis blood analyzer test respectively. Pre and post tests were conducted in all the variables. 16 weeks of yogic practices were given to the experimental group for a period of 16 weeks. Dependent t test was used to determine the signicant difference between the treatment means. Yogic practice group had signicantly increased Haemoglobin where as the control group had no signicant increase in all the variables

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Anaerobic power, muscle strength and physiological changes in physically active men following yogic practice

Biomedical Human Kinetics ◽

10.2478/bhk-2013-0017 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 113-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rameswar Pal ◽

Mantu Saha ◽

Abhirup Chatterjee ◽

Kaushik Halder ◽

Omveer Singh Tomer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Blood Pressure ◽

Muscle Strength ◽

Hold Time ◽

Anaerobic Power ◽

Average Power ◽

Breath Hold ◽

Physical Parameters ◽

Physically Active ◽

Yogic Practice ◽

Peripheral Muscle

Summary Study aim: The present study was aimed to evaluate the effect of three months (90 min daily for five days in a week) yogic practice on physiological and physical parameters of physically active service personnel. Material and methods: Healthy male volunteers (n=60) of age 27±3 years were randomly selected from paramilitary force of the country in this study. A pre designed yoga training course for 3 months comprising of Prayer, Suddhi kriyas, Yogasanas, Pranayamas, Meditation, Mudra and Bandh was imparted daily by certified yoga teacher in the morning for 90 min. Results: After three months of yogic training, body weight and body mass index did not change significantly, systolic blood pressure and mean blood pressure decreased significantly (p < 0.05). We did not found any significant change in heart rate diastolic blood pressure and respiratory rate. Breath-hold time and strength of the peripheral muscle (back and leg muscle strength) was increased significantly (p < 0.001), whereas peak expiratory flow rate did not change significantly. Anaerobic power was improved significantly (p < 0.05) by means of increasing peak power and average power. Conclusion: The present study revealed that the practice of selected yogic training for 3 months resulted improvement in health and performance of the physically active paramilitary force of Indian army.

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Yoga can Alter the Autonomic Neural Activity: A Critical Analysis

Current Traditional Medicine ◽

10.2174/2215083806999200720164432 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 06 ◽

Author(s):

Anup De ◽

Samiran Mondal

Keyword(s):

Frequency Band ◽

Skin Resistance ◽

Low Frequency ◽

Vagal Activity ◽

Neural Responses ◽

Inclusion Criteria ◽

Yogic Practice ◽

Online Databases ◽

Review Study ◽

Heart Rate Variability Spectrum

Background: Modern lifestyle leads a greater psychotechnological stress and it results increase of autonomic imbalances. This predicts disturbance of the normal mental state and cognition. The current researchers found clear relationship between yoga practice and parasympathetic dominance. Objectives: The purpose of the review study was to analyze the scientific literatures related to yoga and autonomic neural responses. Methods: Researchers collected scientific evidences through electronic online databases; PubMed, Embase, Medline, Google scholar, Web of science, PsycINFO, Shodhganga; Europe PMC; Scopus and critically analyzed all the entire relevant articles according to the purpose of this study. After the exhaustive search and selecting the studies on the basis of inclusion criteria, 11 full text articles of galvanic skin resistance and 75 articles related to autonomic function were shortlisted for qualitative analysis. Results: Yogic practices including meditation, pranayama, asana and integrated yoga increase the high frequency band and decrease the low frequency band of the heart rate variability spectrum and it reduces the stress via limbic activity and increases the better psychophysiological relaxation. Conclusions: Yogic practice may enhance the vagal activity which influences autonomic flexibility.

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Aerobic and anaerobic performance improvement through yogic practice

British Journal of Sports Medicine ◽

10.1136/bjsm.2010.078725.224 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 44 (Suppl_1) ◽

pp. i68-i68

Author(s):

M. Saha ◽

O. S. Tomer ◽

K. Halder ◽

A. Pathak

Keyword(s):

Performance Improvement ◽

Anaerobic Performance ◽

Yogic Practice ◽

Aerobic And Anaerobic

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