Can Yoga Help You? – Happy Hour Podcast

By Shannon Jamail for Happy Hour Podcast.

Yoga, like meditation, is one of the ways you can keep your physical and mental health active. Many don’t realize the connection of yoga to mental health benefits and that is what today’s show is about.

This podcast features Valerie Knopik PHD, who is the Department Head of Human Development and Family Studies at Purdue University. She is also a Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist and teaches at the Yoga Medicine Online teaching platform which we’re going to talk about today.

Valerie is interested in all things mental health specifically how the environment and our biology interact to affect our mental health. She’s always been a believer in staying active and yoga is the perfect marriage of her work and mental health and her love of movement and anatomy.

Episode Highlights

• Valerie tells us about herself.
• Merging her academic and social life.
• What is the Yoga Medicine Online platform?
• The reason why they used Yoga Medicine.
• Recommendations for starting home practice.
• Changing the physiology of your body.

Click here to listen to the full episode.