Abstract
ABSTRACT An informal caregiver (ICG) is an individual who provides care (unpaid) to a person with a disability or disease. ICGs report the extreme time spent as an ICG lowers their availability to participate in leisure. Research involving ICGs who participated in leisure resulted in lower depression levels, perceived stress, and burden. Studies involving ICGs who participate in yoga may experience health improvements, but due to the small number of studies involving ICGs feasibility aspects need to be further addressed. ICGs attended an 8-week therapeutic yoga program that examined feasibility components. The feasibility questionnaire implemented at the end of the study resulted in high scores indicating the majority of participants felt the yoga study was feasible. Three qualitative feasibility categories (i.e. programmatic aspects, safety concerns, and care recipient separation) emerged from the focus group/individual interviews. Future studies should replicate a similar structured yoga program to strengthen the positive feasibility results.
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