# How Yoga can Ease Prenatal Depression

Those sun commendations and happy-baby yoga poses may do added than calm the apperception and body. New analysis out of Brown University finds practicing yoga can advice abundant women with cogent prenatal abasement abate the severity of the affection disorder.

The study, conducted in accord with Butler Hospital and Women & Infants' Hospital, suggests the age-old mind-body convenance may be a safer another to demography antidepressants during pregnancy.

Lead researcher Cynthia Battle acclaimed depressed abundant women are generally afraid to use abasement medications and some aswell accept adversity agreeable in alone psychotherapy.

"This is absolutely about aggravating to advance a added ambit of options that clothing women who are experiencing these affectionate of affection during pregnancy," said Battle, accessory assistant of psychiatry and animal behavior in the Alpert Medical School of Brown and a analyst at Butler and Women & Infants. "What we don't wish to do is accept humans abatement through the cracks."

Battle's study, appear in the account Women's Health Issues, tracked 34 abundant women adversity from abasement who alternate in a 10-week affairs of prenatal yoga. Over the advance of the study, the advisers abstinent depressive affection in the women, accord in yoga classes, home yoga practice, and changes in mindfulness, afresh application a connected questionnaire.

The after-effects showed a lot of women accomplished declines in their depressive affection during the 10-week affairs — from levels accounted “clinically cogent depression” to measures decidedly beneath that threshold.

The abstraction abstracts aswell showed that the added yoga abundant women did, the added they benefitted psychologically.

"What we feel like we've abstruse from this accessible pilot balloon is that prenatal yoga absolutely does arise to be an access that is achievable to administer, adequate to women and their healthcare providers, and potentially accessible to advance mood," Battle said. "We begin what we anticipate are actual auspicious results."

The abstraction was adjourned by the National Institute of Mental Health.