Vergeer, Ineke 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6560-9023 and Biddle, Stuart ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7663-6895
(2021)
Mental health, yoga, and other holistic movement practices: A relationship worth investigating.
Mental Health and Physical Activity, 21:100427.
pp. 1-5.
ISSN 1755-2966
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Abstract
Yoga is an ancient Indian practice that has undergone many transitions and reinterpretations over time (Goldberg, 2016) and is currently mostly practised as what is called modern postural yoga (De Michelis, 2004). While yoga has received extensive attention within the field of complementary and integrative medicine (Jeter, Slutsky, Singh, & Khalsa, 2015), the attitudes towards yoga within the field of physical activity appear somewhat mixed (Brinsley, Girard, Smout, & Davison, 2021). Illustrative in this is the stance of this journal, Mental Health & Physical Activity (MENPA), which has so far adopted a policy of not considering manuscripts on yoga and other such practices because of the challenges of separating out the effects of physical activity (email communication with editor Professor Adrian Taylor, 18.4.2020). In this commentary, we argue that a) yoga, and other similar practices, deserve to be considered as forms of physical activity, and in particular in relation to mental health, b) complexity is a challenge but not a reason to disregard these practices, and this challenge is not unsurmountable, and c) complexity is not absent from other physical activity contexts when it comes to mental health.
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