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Phase 3 · Something That Survives November

Part of the 8 Week Yoga Program for Low Mood and Low Energy

25 Minute Yoga Sequence to Keep Going

The last two weeks and the one to keep, because the trial that followed people longest found the effect after six months rather than after eight weeks.

There is a finding in this research that changes how the end of this program should work. In the study most relevant to people who are already being treated, ten weeks of yoga produced no measurable difference at the end of the ten weeks. The difference showed up six months later. Whatever you take out of these eight weeks matters more than what happened during them, so the last phase is about landing on something you would still do in November.

25 min · Level 1

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Wann hilfreich

For weeks seven and eight, and then twice a week for as long as you like. Twenty-five minutes, a mat and a wall. This is a way to build a movement habit when your energy is low. It is not a treatment for depression and it does not replace therapy or medication. If your mood is getting worse, or you have any thought of harming yourself, that needs a person rather than a practice.

Physical effect

One standing pose with effort in it, the back bends, and a long ending.

Keeping going

Short enough for a difficult week, complete enough that nothing important has been left out.

Expectations

The mood effect in these studies took months rather than weeks, particularly for people already in treatment. Continuing is the whole strategy.

Short and complete

One of everything, in a version that survives a bad month.

SchneidersitzSukhasana
01
2 min

Schneidersitz

Sitting, breathing normally, nothing to achieve.

Two minutes to arrive.

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KatzenposeMarjaryasana
02
1 min

Katzenpose

Rounding the back on the out breath.

The warm up in its entirety.

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Kuh HaltungBitilasana
03
1 min

Kuh Haltung

Chest forward on the in breath, eight rounds.

And the other direction.

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Gestrecke ArmposeUrdhva Hastasana
04
45 sec

Gestrecke Armpose

Standing, both arms overhead.

Getting up, and the cheapest chest opener there is.

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StuhlUtkatasana
05
45 sec, twice

Stuhl

Chair Pose, twice.

The one thing here with real effort in it.

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Krieger 1Virabhadrasana 1
06
45 sec each side

Krieger 1

Warrior I, arms up, chest open.

The pose that most looks like the direction this program has been going.

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Hohe KobraBhujangasana
07
30 sec, twice

Hohe Kobra

Face down, chest lifting.

The back bend to keep if you kept only one.

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SchulterbrückeSetu Bandha Sarvangasana
08
45 sec, twice

Schulterbrücke

Hips lifted, feet pressing.

And the easy one, which is why it stays in the short version.

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Knie zur BrustApanasana
09
1 min

Knie zur Brust

Knees in, arms loose.

Everything comes down.

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TotenstellungSavasana
10
4 min

Totenstellung

Flat, covered, four minutes.

Four out of twenty-five. Even in the short version this is protected.

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Integration

Twice a week indefinitely, with the five minute session on any day that needs it. If you stop entirely, the trials suggest the gains go with it, and that is the most useful thing this research has to say.