Benefits of Yoga

Posted by Alicia King Feb 28, 2008

It’s easy to find medical reports citing that yoga is good for any number of physical and mental ailments. Yoga classes have been cited as helping with depression, hypertension, heart disease, arthritis pain and menstrual cramps.

Studies have shown that folks who lose weight can keep it off with a regular yoga practice. And that there are immune system benefits with regular exercise.

Yoga's centering, grounding and relaxing effects almost seem like a panacea.

Dr. Orrin Devinsky, author of recently release third edition of “Epilepsy: Patient and Family Guide” notes that stress can bring on an attack of epilepsy. If that's the case, you would suppose that a regular yoga practice might help stave off a seizure. Unfortunately, there are no studies yet to prove whether or not this is the case.

Dr. Devinsky states that there is more research desperately needed in the area of complementary medicine for the ongoing control of epilepsy.