Increasing Trend of Yoga Practice Among U.S. Adults From 2002 to 2017

Zhang, Yan; Lauche, Romy; Cramer, Holger; Munk, Niki; Dennis, Jeff A.

doi:10.1089/acm.2020.0506

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“…For instance, an analysis from the National Health Interview Survey across multiple years showed that yoga participation almost tripled from 5.1% in 2002 to 13.7% in 2017 with increases observed across all racial and ethnic groups. [ 4 9 ] These population and observational studies support the ongoing investigation of yoga’s potential health benefits, to maximize its positive impact on physical and mental well-being for diverse populations. Interestingly, yoga interventions are equal and/or superior to exercise interventions within many different outcome measures.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…As discussed previously, our sample was mainly cis-female, White, and the majority of whom were highly educated, which is representative of people who practice yoga in the US. [ 4 9 ] However, the generalizability of these findings should be explored in a more diverse sample as yoga participation continues to increase in individuals with other gender identities, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. [ 9 ] Another potential limitation of this study is the fact that yoga is a very broad term that encompasses many different forms of physical practice.…”

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Yoga and Mental Well-being: A Qualitative Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Yoga Practitioners

Vogler,

Salyer,

Giacobbi

2023

International Journal of Yoga

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Context: Participation in yoga has increased dramatically amongst all demographic groups in recent decades. While studies have explored the physical and mental benefits of yoga, few have focused on the lived experiences of those practicing yoga and why they continue their involvement. Aims: The purpose of this study was to assess practitioners’ views about the impact of yoga on mental well-being and explore how these benefits may support their continued practice. Settings and Design: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 individuals, the majority identified as female (M age = 44.25, standard deviation = 11.80). The majority of participants were White (86.36%) and had practiced yoga for an average of 8–10 years (40.91%). Methods: A pragmatic qualitative approach was taken that included the adoption of a constructivist, narrative, meaning-making ontology, hermeneutic epistemology, and interpretivist axiology. Interviews were conducted on Zoom, recorded, and transcribed verbatim. Analysis Used: Interviews were coded independently by two team members following reflexive thematic analysis procedures. Results: Two major themes, structural and functional components, covered the five main subthemes that explained why yoga was beneficial for mental well-being and highlighted the self-sustaining nature of yoga practice: (1) the yoga environment, (2) personnel, (3) strengthening of mind and body during practice, (4) transfer of skills, and (5) giving back. The practitioners described how their yoga journeys supported their mental well-being and encouraged the long-term maintenance of their yoga practices. A conceptual model will be presented that incorporates the major themes and provides an explanation of why practitioners continue to practice yoga. Conclusions: This study provides insight into how yoga’s mental well-being benefits affect adherence, and ultimately, informs our understanding of yoga as a self-sustaining practice.

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Yoga and Mental Well-being: A Qualitative Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Yoga Practitioners

Vogler,

Salyer,

Giacobbi

2023

International Journal of Yoga

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“…Indeed, CAM usage is also different in the United States. Yoga implementation is on the rise in the US, with greater than 13% of the general population practicing in 2017, though it varied even with geographical location within the US (5). Similarly, 1 in 4 breast cancer patients in the US reported using mindfulness, primarily spiritual and yoga practices (6).…”

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Usage and Yoga Practice in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer

Worcester

Pandya

2022

Dev Sanskriti Interdis Internat J

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Metastatic breast cancer has a poor prognosis, and many patients practice yoga or use other complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in their healthcare. CAM has risks and benefits, and it will be useful to understand the role of CAM integrated with conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. Patients with metastatic cancer may respond differently to CAM than those without metastases, and less literature has addressed disease progression in this regard. This short review will attempt to address CAM usage in patients with breast cancer, focused on metastatic disease. The review will address some geographical and cultural differences in CAM usage, benefits of yoga for this patient population to improve quality of life, and highlight study limitations and implementation.

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“…Humans are predisposed to a variety of health-related diseases due to a variety of factors such as aging, poor diet, lifestyle choices, and daily routine activities. Medical care and prescriptions for cure remain a popular mode for healthcare providers and recipients; however, the emergence of antibiotic resistance and complications to such cure lead researchers and care professionals to opt for preventive and integrative forms of medical activities and therapies for diseases rather than medicine as a supplement [ 1 ]. Daily exercises are important for human well-being, especially for older adults [ 2 ].…”

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YoNet: A Neural Network for Yoga Pose Classification

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Yoga has become an integral part of human life to maintain a healthy body and mind in recent times. With the growing, fast-paced life and work from home, it has become difficult for people to invest time in the gymnasium for exercises. Instead, they like to do assisted exercises at home where pose recognition techniques play the most vital role. Recognition of different poses is challenging due to proper dataset and classification architecture. In this work, we have proposed a deep learning-based model to identify five different yoga poses from comparatively fewer amounts of data. We have compared our model’s performance with some state-of-the-art image classification models-ResNet, InceptionNet, InceptionResNet, Xception and found our architecture superior. Our proposed architecture extracts spatial, and depth features from the image individually and considers them for further calculation in classification. The experimental results show that it achieved 94.91% accuracy with 95.61% precision.

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Increasing Trend of Yoga Practice Among U.S. Adults From 2002 to 2017

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

Yoga and Mental Well-being: A Qualitative Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Yoga Practitioners

Yoga and Mental Well-being: A Qualitative Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Yoga Practitioners

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Usage and Yoga Practice in Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer

YoNet: A Neural Network for Yoga Pose Classification

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