Yoga Asana Brain Activity and Connectivity with fNIRS

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Yoga Asana Increases Pre-Frontal Cortex Activity and Reduces Resting State Functional Connectivity

Michelle Goodrick^a, Eleazar Samuel Kolosovas-Machuca^a,b and Edgar Guevara^a,c

^a Coordinación para la Innovación y la Aplicación de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, Universidad, Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luís Potosí, México

^b Faculty of Science, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México

^c CONAHCYT, Universidad, Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luís Potosí, México

Summary

27 healthy adults aged 18 to 65, underwent a 23-minute session of Yoga Asana practice. Participants were seated for six minutes before and after the session, with fNIRS used to measure pre-frontal cortical brain activity. The Yoga Asana session comprised four commonly practiced postures. Postures B, C and D changed automatically every 30 seconds in random order, with a baseline measurement of Posture A for a period of 25 – 30 seconds. This block was repeated during 23 minutes, resulting in 684 asana measurements and 864 baseline measurements total.

Dataset

available at: https://zenodo.org/records/11098997