Now may be the best time ever to take up yoga, with mental health issues like anxiety and depression skyrocketing, according to the World Health Organisation. It reckons the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic alone triggered a 25% spike in the prevalence of anxiety and depression worldwide.
And there could be worse to come. “The information we have now about the impact of Covid-19 on the world’s mental health is just the tip of the iceberg,” Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general said in March this year. “This is a wake-up call to all countries to pay more attention to mental health and do a better job of supporting their populations’ mental health.”
Yoga and meditation might just be the therapy people need. The mind-body practice offers a unique solution and has been shown to help with both anxiety and depression, among many other mental conditions as well as physical challenges.
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