Hot Yoga Study Shows Benefits for Lowering Blood Pressure

Hot Yoga Study Shows Benefits for Lowering Blood Pressure
Hot yoga can help relieve hypertension, offering a safe way to treat heart disease and provide practitioners additional health benefits. fizkes/Shutterstock
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Hot yoga is more than a sweaty fitness trend: It can help people with high blood pressure shift in a calm, healing direction.

A preliminary study confirms the benefits of hot yoga on symptoms of high blood pressure. In a presentation at the American Heart Association’s Hypertension 2019 Scientific Sessions, findings were presented from the novel study exploring a drug-free method of treating elevated blood pressure and hypertension using heated yoga classes.
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