When Does Yoga Work? Long Term and Short Term Effects of Yoga Intervention among Pre-adolescent Children

Psychological Studies

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 153-165

  Pandit, Shilpa Ashok ^a   Satish, Latha ^b  

^a Saraswathi ^*  (India)

^b Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

NCERT and yoga policy; School health; Yoga and preadolescent children

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957541719     PISSN: 00332968     EISSN: 09749861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12646-013-0209-7     Document Type: Article

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