Yoga’s Age-Defying Effects Confirmed by Science

October 3rd, 2022

By Sayer Ji

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

Yoga has long been believed to be a life-extending practice, with yogis maintaining a level of strength and flexibility late into life far beyond what is considered normal or easily attainable in cultures that don’t practice yoga or related mind-body integrating disciplines.

You can observe an example of yoga’s age-defying properties below in the video of Swami Yogananda Maharaji Ji, which at the time of his filming was 104 years of age:

I’ve written before about the many evidence-based health benefits of yoga, based on the primary literature abstracts on our database featuring an impressive 75+ health benefits associated with yogic practice. But I have not yet explored the anti-aging, or better said, longevity-promoting properties of yoga per se, which considering the increasingly aged population in the US and many other developed nations abroad, is highly relevant to the health care concerns of today.

It turns out that it was a watershed year in proving the amazing potential of this at least 5,000 year old practice in helping to decelerate and in some cases reverse various age-related declines in body wide health.

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