New Study Finds Yoga Significantly Reduces Depression in Male Veterans

New Study Finds Yoga Significantly Reduces Depression in Male Veterans

A new study presented at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association found that male veterans who had elevated depression scores before a twice weekly hatha yoga program had a significant reduction in depression symptoms after the eight-week program.

Yoga Can Be Helpful for Teens Suffering from Anxiety, Study Finds

Yoga Can Be Helpful for Teens Suffering from Anxiety, Study Finds

Anxiety disorders are the most common adolescent mental health conditions in the United States, with approximately one-third (31.9%) of 13- to 18-year-old children suffering from clinical anxiety. In addition, 8.3% of adolescents with anxiety disorders experience severe impairment in their daily functioning. Females are more commonly affected than males, with lifetime prevalence rates of 38% and 26%, respectively.

Increased interest in complementary therapies, high rates of childhood anxiety, the controversy surrounding SSRI use in adolescents, and the climbing costs of mental health care point to the need for mind and body therapeutic approaches to anxiety management. Despite the many barriers to mind and body practices, current research focusing on biofeedback, mindfulness, yoga, and hypnosisdemonstrates that these methods show promise to reduce anxiety among adolescent populations.

Why Teach Yoga and Mindfulness in Prison?

Why Teach Yoga and Mindfulness in Prison?

I came to see yoga as a vehicle for transformation through reclaiming an intimate, healthy relationship with self. Upon reflection, it seemed like a natural evolution to offer these tools to inmates prior to release from prison in anticipation of the challenges of reintegration, and the potential for recidivism.

Neuroscience and the True Purpose of Yoga

Neuroscience and the True Purpose of Yoga

“The current human disconnection from the natural world starts with our disconnection from our own bodies, which we as a culture inherited – to a degree that most of us generally don’t quite acknowledge the extent of our inability to feel our own bodies.”
– Simon Thakur

Study: Yoga reduces falls among the elderly

Study: Yoga reduces falls among the elderly

People who do hatha yoga report improved balance, but only now has yoga’s impact on falls received rigorous study.

Now, University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of family medicine Irene Hamrick reports that the number of falls in older adults dropped 48 percent in the six months after yoga classes began, compared to the six months previous.

The Point - A year of giving

The Point - A year of giving

Aiming to reach out to the most marginalized members of the San Diego community, OG Yoga has a spot for anyone who wants to be transformed by the power of yoga. OG Yoga promotes self-reliance and social change with the help of their certified yoga instructors who specialize in assisting at-risk locals overcoming challenges. Geared towards combating poverty, homelessness, addiction and more, OG Yoga is a renowned agent of change that focuses on the healing process necessary for participants to live a full and productive life.

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Eric Eichler with OG Yoga’s #ytt class. Eric shared a great workshop on his experience sharing yoga with military veterans. 🙌
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“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” -Henry Miller
“Before teaching my first class with OG Yoga I was intimidated. The idea of teaching yoga to incarcerated individuals frightened me to a degree (which is funny to look back on now). Would they appreciate it, would the way I teach resonate? Over three years and hundreds of classes later I feel deeply grateful. Grateful for the opportunity to share the practice which has been so profound in my life and to see it positively impact others. In short, sharing yoga with those who would otherwise have no access to it has been one of the greatest privileges of my life.” - John O’Brien | OG Yoga instructor
“Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one’s life to the liberation of the brother who suffers. It is up to each one of us. It won’t happen unless we decide to use our lives to show the way.” - Cesar Chavez 🍇✊🏾
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Visit OG Yoga 🏵 @thornbeer this Tuesday donations help OG Yoga deliver trauma informed yoga in #sandiego Ticket link: bit.do/ogontap and in bio 🙌
A teacher can help illuminate the path, but cannot walk it for you. 🔥 “Bhikkhus, the teaching is merely a vehicle to describe the truth. Don’t mistake it for the truth itself. A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for the moon, but if you mistake the finger for the moon itself, you will never know the real moon. The teaching is like a raft that carries you to the other shore. The raft is needed, but the raft is not the other shore. An intelligent person would not carry the raft around on his head after making it across to the other shore. Bhikkhus, my teaching is the raft which can help you cross to the other shore beyond birth and death. Use the raft to cross to the other shore, but don’t hang onto it as your property. Do not become caught in the teaching. You must be able to let it go.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
OG Yoga’s founder @joannjaffe delivered a presentation today at her alma mater USD, where she obtained her MBA “a million years ago”. Her talk was on ‘self-inquiry: welcoming it all - Svadhyaya’. So inspired by these curious, sentient beings!
“Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn

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