Can School Yoga Improve Heart Rate Variability and Nervous System Balance? A Controlled Pilot Study

Can practicing yoga in school improve the body's ability to regulate stress? This episode of www.YogaInsightPod.com explores a 10-week controlled pilot study by Julia Frank, Georg Seifert, and colleagues from Jena University Hospital, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena, and Immanuel Hospital. The study examined how yoga postures, breathing exercises, meditation, and relaxation influenced heart rate variability (HRV) and autonomic nervous system regulation in young adults compared with conventional school sports.