Yoga as Personalized Medicine?!: Research Roundup

As both yoga teachers and practitioners, it is important to understand how to take general instruction and use it to cater to your personal needs. In this episode, hosts Tiffany and Katja talk about recent research on personalized medicine and training, discuss how wearables and data collection play into individualized training programs, and relate current research findings to personalized yoga approaches.

Listen to this episode to learn about the history and trends of individualised medicine and training, how to know which data to collect, why body awareness is important in individualisation, and how to take this perspective into account in a group class.

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Show Notes:

• What is the history of personalized medicine, training, and yoga [2:04]
• Factors to consider [8:31]
• Tracking and evaluating data [12:12]
• Current research and potential downsides [20:37]
• How to individualize a group class [35:32]
• Recap [37:49]

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Links Mentioned:

• Watch this episode on YouTube
• Connect with Katja Bartsch:

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