I sat there in my 200-hour yoga training unable to keep quiet as the instructor told the group how one of the benefits of yoga was improved bone density.
“Wait just a minute,” I piped up and proceeded to describe why this was wrong. I’d been lecturing on osteoporosis as a medical exercise specialist for more than a decade. At this point, there wasn’t much conclusive evidence of the positive effects of yoga on bone density.
But it turns out my yoga instructor was right, or she was predicting a study that would be published years later. A 10-year study of the effects of practicing 12 yoga poses for 30 seconds each found that daily yoga reverses bone
