{"id":3441,"date":"2026-09-08T05:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:37:18","slug":"yoga-based-program-cuts-stress-and-anxiety-in-teens-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=3441","title":{"rendered":"Yoga-Based Program Cuts Stress and Anxiety in Teens, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A four-week yoga-based stress management program produced large improvements in depression, anxiety, and perceived stress among high school students, according to a cluster randomized controlled trial published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/jad.70155\">Journal of Adolescence<\/a>. Researchers Nesrin Arslan and Aysun Ardic, of Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa and Karabuk University, studied 120 adolescents, average age 16.9, across eight high schools.<\/p>\n<p>Students in the intervention group attended weekly 50-minute sessions combining cognitive-behavioral stress management techniques with Yin yoga, a slower-paced style that holds poses for extended periods. A comparison group received only a single brief stress-education session. Compared with that group, participants in the yoga program showed significantly greater reductions in depression, anxiety, and stress, along with improved psychological well-being and confidence in their own yoga practice, with the gains still measurable three months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-week yoga-based stress management program produced large improvements in depression, anxiety, and perceived stress among high school students, according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}