Author: Naresh Katla, Atmika Ramsahaye, Arun Thulasi, Judu Ilavarasu, Aarti Jagannathan, Hemant Bhargav, Shivarama Varambally, Nanjudaiah Gangadhar, et al. In the past decades, more than fifty different yoga styles have been implemented in the therapeutic context to manage various diseases. Yet, not all of these yoga styles have been validated or standardized as a program. The aim of this article is to review the different methodologies used for yoga module development and to assess their quality.
Three databases (PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus) were searched using the following keywords and Boolean operators: (validation OR development OR design) AND (yoga OR mind‑body) AND (module OR protocol OR program). Three thousand six hundred and seventy‑one articles were enlisted, and based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 37 articles were narrowed down for review. Since no…
