Yoga is an important component of the Dr. Dean Ornish Program, internationally noted for successfully treating heart disease by showing patients how to make critical lifestyle changes through exercise, low-fat vegetarian diet, stress management and emotional support.“Yoga is a huge tool in the fight to prevent, stop or reverse the heart disease patterns we are seeing,” says Vicki Lindberg, yoga instructor and coordinator with the Dr. Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease at Alegant Health, Bergan Mercy Medical Center in Omaha.
The Ornish program uses Hatha yoga, which involves specialized breathing and a series of poses — in combination with complementary techniques — meditation and visualization, for example — to help lower pulse rate, cholesterol level and blood pressure, improve respiration, endocrine function and circulation, normalize weight, enhance flexibility, and impart deep relaxation. Yoga, like resistance training, increases muscularity, but without making excessive demands on the body.
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