title: Effect of 'Exercise Without Movement' yoga method on mindfulness, anxiety and depression.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the effect of the 'Exercise Without Movement' (E.W.M) yoga method on mindfulness and on the improvement of anxiety and depression symptoms.
  
  
  METHODS
  A quasi-experimental study examined the effect of one month E.W.M. intervention among 38 participants who were enrolled voluntarily to both groups, study (n = 16) and control (n = 22). Five participants dropped out during the study. The State Mindfulness Scale (SMS) was used to measure mindfulness. The Anxiety Inventory Beck (BAI) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) were used to measure the anxiety and depression symptoms, respectively, before and after the intervention.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Study group showed both a statistically significant increase in mindfulness and decrease in anxiety and depression symptoms, compared with the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The E.W.M. has been useful in the development of mindfulness and in the treatment of anxiety and depression symptoms and may represent a new method in the mindfulness-based therapeutic application.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology, Section of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain. Electronic address: laura_tolbanos@yahoo.es.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tolbaños Roche
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology, Section of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
authors.forename: María Teresa
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Miró Barrachina
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology, Psychobiology and Methodology, Section of Psychology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
authors.forename: Ignacio
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ibáñez Fernández
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy*; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D064866:Mindfulness; D015013:Yoga
keywords: 'Exercise Without Movement' yoga method; Anxiety symptoms; Body awareness; Depression symptoms; Mindfulness; Relaxation