Summary- Research and testing by PhD Lindsey Hopkins showed the acceptability and antidepressant effects of hatha yoga. Hatha is a branch of yoga that has aerobic and physical exercises that enhances the well-being of a body. For eight weeks, Hopkins conducted her study with 23 male veterans that participated twice a week. The overall average of the veteran’s enjoyment of the yoga study was a 9.4 from a 1 to 10 scale. They also talked about how the yoga program elevated their mood and had a significant reduction in symptoms after the study was concluded. At Alliant University in San Francisco, MA Sarah Shallit invited 52 women to a different form of yoga called Bikram yoga, also known as heated yoga. Shallit had the same process as Hopkins,