Knowledge of yoga and its application in psychiatry by Manan Kirankumar Desai

“…Deeper understanding of these forms of yoga reveals that certain components including ethical and moral principles, posture (asana), breathe regulation (pranayam), chanting particular sounds (mantra), introspection (pratyahar), contemplation (dharana), and meditation (dhyan) are common among these. …”
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Novel deep learning models for yoga pose estimator by Amira Samy Talaat

“…A posture estimator extracts yoga asana attributes from properly represented images. …”
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Insights on Surya namaskar from its origin to application towards health by L. Prasanna Venkatesh, S. Vandhana

“…Their contributions resulted in this excellent series of Asanas being introduced to the practitioners. Such a miraculous group of postures also involves dynamic breathing patterns at each posture and gives a form of complete practice involving asanas and pranayama. …”
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A Review on Yoga Therapy for Diabetes Management by Babita Raghuwanshi, Vikas Bhatia, Rajesh K. Manik

“…Yoga offers holistic solution to the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications involving lifestyle changes encompassing kriyas, various asana, changes in diet, management of stress, meditation. …”
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Mobiliario inédito de época ilustrada en el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC. Mesa de Manila de D. Pedro Franco Dávila y librería Conde de Floridablanca by Julio González-Alcalde

“…Son una gran mesa de madera de narra asana (Pterocarpus indicus L.) de Manila, pieza única puesto que, en el estado actual de nuestros conocimientos, no consta ninguna semejante en otras colecciones. …”
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Effect of selected yogic practices on pain and disability in patients with lumbar spondylitis by Rajesh Kumar Manik, Ashok Kumar Mahapatra, Rajendra Gartia, Sumit Bansal, Ashis Patnaik

“…The module of selected yogic practices consisted of pawanamuktasana series 1 (loosening and strengthening), asana, pranayama, and relaxation techniques Yoga Nidra. …”
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Relevance of Marma Sharira in contemporary science: A scientific review by Jagjeet Singh, Pooja Sabharwal

“…The mechanism of action of Marma therapy can be correlated with acupressure, yoga asana mechanism in terms of prana, srotas, and vyanavata. …”
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Yoga as a complementary and alternative therapy for cardiopulmonary functions by Vipin Rathore, Nidheesh Yadav

“…Complementary and alternatiASve therapy is a rapidly growing area in the biomedical sciences, in which Yoga therapy has arisen at the frontlines of holistic medical care and is perceived as a form of mind-body practise because of its long history of connecting physical, mental, and spiritual well-being with the coalescence of physical postures (asana), breathing exercises (pranayama), and meditation (dhyana). …”
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The Effect of 8 weeks aerobic exercise and yoga on primary dismenorrhea by T Siahpour, M Nikbakht, E Rahimi, MA Rabiee

“…In this eight-week exercise program, the aerobic exercises group for 60 minutes in three weeks and yoga exercises group in three sessions per week for 60 minutes, the yoga breathing techniques, exercises, asana and relaxation techniques were performed. There was no intervention in the control group. …”
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The effect of long term combined yoga practice on the basal metabolic rate of healthy adults by Nagendra HR, Kurpad AV, Chaya MS, Nagarathna R

“…The purpose of the present study was to investigate the net change in the basal metabolic rate (BMR) of individuals actively engaging in a combination of yoga practices (asana or yogic postures, meditation and pranayama or breathing exercises) for a minimum period of six months, at a residential yoga education and research center at Bangalore.…”
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Research-Based Perspectives on the Psychophysiology of Yoga / by Telles, Shirley, editor, Singh, Nilkamal, 1982-, editor

Role of yoga and meditation in sustainability and maintaining healthy life in pandemic by Chander Shekhar Sharma, Amrita Sharma

“…Yoga usually emphasizes Asana, Pranayama, Dhyana and if practiced on daily basis will increase endorphins-feel-good-chemicals within the body and reduces cortisol levels that cause stress. …”
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Yoga in Australia: Results of a national survey by Stephen Penman, Marc Cohen, Philip Stevens, Sue Jackson

“…Results: The typical yoga survey respondent was a 41-year-old, tertiary educated, employed, health-conscious female (85% women). Asana (postures) and vinyasa (sequences of postures) represented 61% of the time spent practicing, with the other 39% devoted to the gentler practices of relaxation, pranayama (breathing techniques), meditation and instruction. …”
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Multi-omics integration and interactomics reveals molecular networks and regulators of the beneficial effect of yoga and exercise by Manoj Khokhar, Sojit Tomo, Ashita Gadwal, Purvi Purohit

“…Background: Yoga is a multifaceted spiritual tool that helps in maintaining health, peace of mind, and positive thoughts. In the context of asana, yoga is similar to physical exercise. This study aims to construct a molecular network to find hub genes that play important roles in physical exercise and yoga. …”
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Nootropic efficacy of Satvavajaya Chikitsaand Ayurvedic drug therapy: A comparative clinical exposition by Hetal Amin, Rohit Sharma

“…In Group A, Satvavajaya Chikitsa was adopted in form of Yogic procedures such as Asana, Pranayama, Chanting etc., with counseling and placebo. …”
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Designing and validation of Yoga module for workers with prolonged standing by U. Yamuna, Kshamashree Madle, Vijaya Majumdar, Apar Avinash Saoji

“…Results: The validated yoga module consists of joint loosening and strengthening exercises, asana, pranayama and relaxation techniques. The average CVR for the module was found to be 0.80. …”
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Religion and settlement as preservers of ethnicity by Barjaktarović Mirko

“…This paper presents a few cases of ethnicity preservation (sometimes its loss), namely: (1) The Sarakačans group (a Greek speaking ancient Balkan population); that is, its lineage Ašana in Goč (nearby Kraljevo); (2) Serbs in White Krajina (Slovenia) and Zumberka (Croatia); (3) Serbs from former Montenegro settled in the village of Peroj, in Istria; (4) Catholic Albanians, tribe Klimenti settled in Srem' villages Nikinci, Hrtkovci and Jarak, who declare themselves to be Croatians today; (5) A Serbian population from Montenegro and parts of Herzegovina (various tribes from Ceklina, Bjelopavlić, Riječka nahija, Njeguš, Grahovo and Zubac), from Petlovo Selo, in northeast Serbia (6) Torbeša families, from the group Mijaka, an originally Slav-Islamic population in the Crni Drim area, that immigrated in the 1960's to Izmir, in Turkey; (7). …”
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Yoga Intervention for Mental Health and Quality of Life in Bronchial Asthmatic Patients: A Review by Niyanta Bipinkumar Joshi, Biman Bihari Paul

“…Yoga is not only a group of some asana, pranayama and meditation but, it is a complete mind-body intervention and holistic approach towards life. …”
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Effect of short-term pranayama and meditation on cardiovascular functions in healthy individuals by Roopa B Ankad, Anita Herur, Shailaja Patil, G V Shashikala, Surekharani Chinagudi

“…Context: Asana, pranayama, and meditation are three main techniques of yoga practiced in India over thousands of years to attain functional harmony between the body and mind. …”
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Contribution of Professional Teachers to the Local Economy of Cebu City, Philippines by Antoniette Almaden, Jan Roel Herbieto, Mila Mae Velasco

“…A yoga teacher deems professional when remuneration is generated from teaching and guiding students on the path of Yoga, including the practices of pranayama, meditation, and asana. This study intends to determine whether professional yoga teachers contribute an economic value in terms of employment and income tax to the local economy of Cebu. …”
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