Engineering Health: Introduction to Yoga and Physiology
Explore human physiological systems and how yoga, meditation, and mindfulness can reduce stress, support healing, and prevent chronic illness. Learn system-by-system physiology while practicing targeted yoga techniques for therapy, prevention, and overall wellness.
What you'll learn
- Understand major human physiological systems and their normal and abnormal function
- Connect yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practices to specific physiological mechanisms
- Review scientific research on yoga for conditions like hypertension, stress, diabetes, insomnia, chronic pain, and PTSD
- Apply targeted yoga practices for therapy, prevention, and overall wellness with weekly guided sessions
Skills you'll gain
- Identify the role, structure, and function of human physiological systems
- Identify the conditions and presentation of normal and abnormal functioning of human physiological systems
- Examine underlying physiological mechanisms that connect healthy functioning to yoga practice
- Practice yoga that targets therapy, prevention, and overall wellness
- Gain skills in neurology, mindfulness, immunology, anatomy, stress management, physiology, respiratory care, orthopedics, research, cardiology, endocrinology, mental health, and chronic diseases
Prerequisites
- • No prior experience required
Who this course is for
- → Yoga practitioners and teachers
- → College students interested in health and physiology
- → Medical practitioners seeking physiological insight into yoga
- → Learners interested in alternative health perspectives and scientific views on yoga
Provider
Coursera
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