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Here's why first responders are turning to yoga to improve their performance on the job

There are a number of rationales for introducing mindfulness to young people, including enhancing core cognitive skills to support academic and social functioning, #mindfulness #youth #newleaf #yogaservice #yogaforyouth

"Yoga is unique in that it combines several things that empirical research has shown to be very helpful for improving depression and other mental health concern...s: exercise, mindfulness, and breathing practices, to name a few, says study information co-investigator Lindsey B. Hopkins, Ph.D., a research fellow at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care Center. All of these things likely played a role in the benefits that these veterans experienced." #yoga #mindfulness #meditation #mentalhealth #emotionalhealth #traumainformed #newleaf See more

"Yoga psychology sees the mind and breath as bound together in the frame of the human body. There is no mind without breath, no stillness in body without stilln...ess in mind, and no stillness in the mind without a breath that has settled." - The Inner Tradition of Yoga, Michael Stone #yoga #psychology #breath #body #mind #stillness #quote

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