How Yoga Supports Health & Physiology

How Yoga Supports Health

There is an understanding in many healthcare settings that, when all else fails, yoga works. – Joseph LePage

There are different perspectives from which we can discuss how yoga supports health. For a long summary list of health benefits, see Timothy McCall MD’s list of 38 benefits here.

Here we examine yoga’s impact from the following perspectives:

1. Prevention & symptom relief
2. Support along with other treatments
3. Balancing stability & ease
4. Impacting bodily systems & processes

Prevention & Symptom Relief