20 minutes of yoga can improve both sleep and memory.
20 minutes of yoga improves sleep and memory
New research has discovered that practicing yoga nidra - a type of mindfulness training - improves sleep and cognitive abilities, even in novices.
Yoga nidra leads individuals to a state of conscious relaxation as they lie down and experts from the Armed Forces Medical College in India found that participants showed a marked increase in sleep efficiency and were able to give quicker and more accurate responses in various cognitive tests.
Along with the health boosts, Professor Karuna Datta and the team note that yoga nidra is a low-cost and highly accessible activity that can benefit everybody.
The researchers wrote in a media release: "Yoga nidra practice improves sleep and makes brain processing faster. Accuracy also increased, especially with learning and memory-related tasks."