How Yoga Can Help: How Yoga Can Help with Immunity

A key to understanding how yoga can help with immune system functioning is to understand the nervous system and how yoga impacts it:

• Stress Response, Fight or Flight, Chronic Stress & Relaxation Response
• Why Yoga Works: Yoga’s Impact on the Nervous System & Stress

In General

Yoga may assist with immunity in three general ways:

1. Help to foster well-being and boost immune system functioning in general.
2. Address the particular factors that contribute to and exacerbate immune system disorders, including stress and inflammation.
3. Complement medical treatment for illness.

Choosing Tools

When choosing yoga tools to support people experiencing immune system issues or autoimmune diseases, consider these objectives:

• Release stress.
• Calm the nervous system.
• Assist in reducing inflammation in the body.