What are the health benefits of yoga?

Research suggests that yoga may:

Help improve general wellness by relieving stress, supporting good health habits, and improving mental/emotional health, sleep, and balance

Relieve low-back pain and neck pain

Relieve menopause symptoms

Help people manage anxiety or depressive symptoms associated with difficult life situations (but yoga has not been shown to help manage anxiety disorders, clinical depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD])

Help people quit smoking

Help people who are overweight or obese lose weight

Help people with chronic diseases manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life.

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