Breath, Stress and Health: a Biocultural Study of Hatha Yoga Practice

"Participants engage in an intensive full yoga practice of hatha breath-based practices and inner meditative techniques along with body-based asana. Intensive level uses breath, management of abdomen, inner focus in all practices. The high dose of yoga is an interpretation of the Translational Model of Yoga (TMY) and Yoga Process formula, both developed in this study's cultural research: a systematized psycho-physical yoga method of Hatha Zone (HZ) focus (below-navel, exhale, inner focus), incorporating key components of practice-focus-surrender (PFS) approach and repeat-engage-trust (RET) elements."

"The medium dose of yoga is a regular practice of primarily body-posture training with minimal reference to the breath, but with a longer period of time duration in training prior to intervention commencement. Participants have 5 months of pre-training before initiating the intervention."