Feasibility of a Yoga Intervention for Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Yoga is a potentially low risk intervention for cognitive impairment that combines mental and physical practice and includes instruction on breathing, stress reduction, and mindfulness meditation. Previous research documents that yoga can target modifiable risk factors for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) progression. The authors describe a randomized feasibility trial of yoga for individuals with MCI.

Perceptions of hatha yoga amongst persistently depressed individuals enrolled in a trial of yoga for depression.

Objectives: To understand depressed individuals' experiences in a 10-week hatha yoga program.

Design: In a randomized controlled trial, participants were assigned to either 10 weeks of hatha yoga classes or a health education control group. This report includes responses from participants in yoga classes.

Open trial of Vinyasa yoga for persistently depressed individuals: evidence of feasibility and acceptability.

The aim of this study was to assess the acceptability and feasibility of Vinyasa yoga as an adjunctive treatment for depressed patients who were not responding adequately to antidepressant medication. The authors also planned to ask participants for qualitative feedback on their experience of the class and to assess change over time in depression and in possible mediating variables. The authors recruited 11 participants in 1 month for an 8-week open trial of yoga classes.