What are the benefits of yoga for people with diabetes?

Research demonstrates that yoga has a positive, short-term impact on various diabetes-related biomedical outcomes. The majority of past research has examined adults with type 2 diabetes to the exclusion of adults with type 1 diabetes, despite their shared and unique self-management challenges and risks of developing serious complications. Further, research investigating the impact of yoga on diabetes-related behavioural and psychological health factors are scarce. Due to the methodological limitations of existing studies, additional high-quality research is needed to explore the long-term impacts of yoga on a broad range of diabetes management outcomes, including behavioural and psychological health outcomes, for both adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.