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 Yoga’s Role in Slowing Brain

Decline

Supported by Alzheimer’s Association grant, Rhode Island Hospital

in Providence researchers are studying whether regular practice of yoga can

 help a brain in slow decline!" It is recruiting people with mild cognitive

disorder! to study whether yoga can improve their condition" #oga is an

ancient practice $nown to improve mental, spiritual and physical well%being

among its practitioners!, a Hospital release says"

&ed by 'r" (eoffrey )remont, *europsychology 'irector at Rhode Island

Hospital, the study will direct patients through a +%wee$, twice%wee$ly yoga

regimen" He hopes to enroll -. patients in the study of yoga’s role in

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improving cognitive conditions among people diagnosed with mild cognitive

impairment!" )he yoga program involves meditation, physical

postures, breathing e/ercises and rela/ation!, release says and adds, #oga

has benefits for a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions!"

Hindus have welcomed efforts of Rhode Island Hospital and Alzheimer’s

Association into e/ploration of yoga’s role in cognitive health"

'istinguished Hindu statesman Ra0an 1ed, in a statement in *evada today,

said that although introduced and nourished by Hinduism, yoga was a world

heritage and liberation powerhouse to be utilized by all" According

to Patan0ali who codified it in #oga Sutra, yoga was a methodical effort to

attain perfection, through the control of the different elements of human

nature, physical and psychical"

#oga, referred as a living fossil!, was a mental and physical discipline, for

everybody to share and benefit from, whose traces went bac$ to around

,... 234 to Indus 5alley civilization, 1ed, who is President of 6niversal

Society of Hinduism, pointed out"

According to 6S *ational Institutes of Health, yoga may help one to feelmore rela/ed, be more fle/ible, improve posture, breathe deeply, and get rid

of stress" According to a recently released .+7 #oga in America Study!,

about 8- million Americans 9which included many celebrities: now practice

yoga; and yoga is strongly correlated with having a positive self image" #oga

is the repository of something basic in thehuman soul and psyche, Ra0an 1ed

adds"

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emergency department visits in .+@" 'r" >argaret >" 5an 2ree is the

President"