Articles on Yoga

This site has scientific articles on research on yoga and a series of nonscientific articles on yoga for highly sensitive people.     (jump to HSP articles)

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Jim Kennedy


Scientific Articles on Yoga

The following 2 articles investigated the effects of healthy lifestyle programs that included yoga and meditation.

Changes in Spirituality and Well-Being in a Medically Based Lifestyle Program. (2003), James E. Kennedy, Kitty Gurkin Rosati, Lawrence H. Spann, Ann D. King, Francis A. Neelon, Robert A. Rosati, Published on the internet.
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Changes in Spirituality and Well-Being in a Retreat Program for Cardiac Patients. (2002), James E. Kennedy, R. Anne Abbott, Beth S. Rosenberg, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine , Volume 8, No. 4, pp. 64-73.
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Yoga Breathing Techniques: Implications for Stress Management, Health, and Psychophysiological Research. (1990), James E. Kennedy, Published on the internet.
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When I discovered that various yoga breathing practices had powerful effects for me, I became curious about the scientific basis for them and found a vast amount of useful, fascinating physiological, medical, and psychological information. I devoted considerable effort to integrating this information in the manuscript above, which was submitted to a psychology journal. The editors said this was an interesting topic and well written manuscript, but it had too much physiology for their readers. I was sure the manuscript also had too much psychology and yoga for a physiology journal, so there was no place to publish it. It is a little out of date now, but will likely be of interest to people seriously interested in yoga. Perhaps it can inspire someone to write a book on this fascinating topic.


Yoga for Highly Sensitive People

Yoga for HSPs: Part I. Getting Started. (2000), Jim Kennedy, Comfort Zone: The HSP Newsletter , Volume 5, Issue 2 (May), pp. 11-13.
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Yoga for HSPs: Part II. Exploring Hatha. (2000), Jim Kennedy, Comfort Zone: The HSP Newsletter , Volume 5, Issue 3 (August), pp. 12-13.
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Yoga for HSPs: Part III. Beyond the Physical. (2000), Jim Kennedy, Comfort Zone: The HSP Newsletter , Volume 5, Issue 4 (November), pp. 2-3.
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The Guru Thing. (2000), Jim Kennedy.
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