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Many yoga teachers and students boast the positive effects that yoga practice has on their health and wellness, making claims that yoga is capable of cleansing the body, burning fat, and reducing stress. These claims have kindled considerable popularity in yoga practice, as well as, skepticism in its “mystical powers”. Mindfulness is a relatively new concept defined as the state of being attentive to and aware of what is taking place in the present. There are many different ways mindfulness can be cultivated. Mindfulness has been shown to lower psychological distress (Rosenzweig, et al 2003). By combining yoga with mindfulness, there is great potential for designing effective interventions for reducing stress. Yoga and mindfulness may not always coexist; therefore, it is important to be able to assess the changes that are occurring with respect to mindfulness whenever a mindfulness-based stress reduction program is applied. Many yoga and mindfulness-based stress reduction programs take a considerable amount of time and are thus likely to have low adherence. The purpose of this study was to test the effects of a worksite-based mindful-yoga program on mindfulness. It was hypothesized that a 6-week mindful-yoga program will significantly increase mindfulness in the treatment group. Forty-six full-time faculty and staff of The Ohio State University participated in the study. Each participant was randomly assigned to treatment (n=22) or waitlist control (n=20) groups. The treatment group participated in one instructor-guided mindful-yoga session (60 minutes) and four individual office yoga sessions (20 minutes each) each week for six weeks. The Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) was used as the outcome measure. The MAAS was given at pretest and posttest to both groups. Dependent samples t-test was used to detect significance (p |
