Immediate Effect of a Yoga Breathing Practice on Attention and Anxiety in Pre-Teen Children

• Main Authors: Shirley Telles (Author), Ram Kumar Gupta (Author), Kumar Gandharva (Author), Babita Vishwakarma (Author), Niranjan Kala (Author), Acharya Balkrishna (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pre-teen children face stressors related to their transition from childhood to adolescence, with a simultaneous increase in academic pressure. The present study compared the immediate effects of 18 min of (i) high frequency yoga breathing with (ii) yoga-based breath awareness and (iii) sitting quiet...