First-person experience and yoga research: studying neural correlates of an intentional practice

Solomonova, Elizaveta

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00085

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“…Here, the meditative side of yoga created space for focus and greater awareness of bodily experiences, emotions, and thoughts (cf. ( 18 , 80 )).…”

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The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners’ experiences

Hagen,

Hagen

2024

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundWorkplace stress is a serious problem globally. It represents a major threat to the UN’s sustainability goal of good health and wellbeing (SDG 3). The purpose of this article is to explore how yoga may be a tool for increased wellbeing and stress management at work and in everyday life.MethodsTo examine how yoga can facilitate employees’ wellbeing and ability to cope with stress, we performed qualitative interviews with practitioners who did yoga regularly. We focused on how yoga was experienced by each of our interviewees and what practicing yoga meant to them. Our data material consists of 13 semi-structured lifeworld interviews. The sample consisted of 10 female and 3 male in the age range of 20–55 years old. The data were analyzed through a thematic analysis.ResultsThe themes identified in the thematic analysis include: (1) yoga as a tool for increased wellbeing, (2) yoga for coping with stress and dealing with challenges, (3) the role of breathing, and (4) contextual factors. While confirming other research findings, this article elaborates on aspects informants described as induced by yoga, like self-awareness, calmness, balance, mood-lifting, focus, presence, self-care, and mastery. The reported positive outcomes of yoga constituted increased wellbeing, and also facilitated the ability to cope with stress and experience less stress. Informants also emphasized that yogic breathing was a central factor in inducing wellbeing and feeling less stressed. They also expressed that contextual factors, such as time, teacher, and location, influenced how practicing yoga was experienced and made sense of.ConclusionThe study concludes that the interviewees experienced practicing yoga as positive, by reducing their occupational stress. Moreover, yoga increased their wellbeing, as well as their ability to cope with stress. These experienced changes were especially facilitated by yogic breathing, and influenced by contextual factors.

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“…Here, the meditative side of yoga created space for focus and greater awareness of bodily experiences, emotions, and thoughts (cf. ( 18 , 80 )).…”

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“…Bernt Here, the meditative side of yoga created space for focus and greater awareness of bodily experiences, emotions, and thoughts (cf. (18,80)). Several informants mentioned the role social media and other media played in experiencing stress.…”

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The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners’ experiences

Hagen,

Hagen

2024

Front. Public Health

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A novel Differential Susceptibility framework for the study of nightmares: Evidence for trait sensory processing sensitivity

Carr

Nielsen

2017

Clinical Psychology Review

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First-person experience and yoga research: studying neural correlates of an intentional practice

Cited by 2 publications

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The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners’ experiences

The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners’ experiences

A novel Differential Susceptibility framework for the study of nightmares: Evidence for trait sensory processing sensitivity

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