Yoga/Pranayama for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

This study aims to investigate the effect of a pranayama focused yoga intervention on post‐traumatic symptom severity in patients with post‐traumatic stress disorder undergoing standard psychotherapy/ trauma‐focused cognitive‐behavioral therapy (TF‐CBT). Therefore, short pranayama sessions of 5‐10 minutes will be provided to the patients directly at the begin of each of standard TF‐CBT unit, while the control group will get standard TF‐CBT alone. It should further be investigated, whether pranayama can enhance the affective tolerance of patients with post‐traumatic stress disorder towards the used exposure techniques of TF‐CBT.