Can School Yoga Improve Heart Rat...

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

YogaInsightPod by YogaInsightPod
E81
Oct 11, 2026
46:21

Episode notes

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.

Keywords

Yoga for Students, Yoga and Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Yoga and Autonomic Nervous System, Yoga for Stress Reduction

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