Yoga as a Supportive Therapy for Patients With Hypertension

Inclusion Criteria: * essential Hypertension * stable antihypertensive medication during the next 6 months Exclusion Criteria: * pregnancy or breast feeding * simultaneous participation in further clinical intervention trials * regular yoga practice in the past 12 months * serious mental illness (severe depression, severe addiction, psychosis) * manifest coronary heart disease that has been treated in the past 3 months or myocardial infarction, embolism of pulmonary arteries or stroke in the past 3 months * heart failure ≥ state 1 New York Heart Association (NYHA) * peripheral arterial occlusive disease ≥ state 1 * renal insufficiency \> state 2, glomerular filtration rate \< 60 ml/min/1,73m² according to he National Kidney Foundation (NKF)