Engineering Health: Introduction to Yoga and Physiology

Physiology through a wellness lens

This course starts from the body's systems and asks how practices like yoga and meditation affect them. Its focus on chronic illness and long-term treatment gives it a health-care angle, which is a different emphasis from a typical yoga class.

Several audiences, one syllabus

The description names yoga teachers and practitioners alongside college students and medical practitioners. That mix means the course has to explain physiology from first principles, so a teacher and a clinician might both find the early material useful while bringing different questions to it.

What to expect

• Breathing and respiration as entry points into physiology
• Mindfulness and stress framed as therapeutic tools
• Musculoskeletal and cell-level topics alongside the wellness content

The course is labeled beginner, so treat it as an introduction to the research rather than a clinical guide.