In a recent qualitative pilot study on the topic “Yoik and health” conducted in 2015, Hämäläinen and colleagues hypothesise that yoik must be considered an important marker of social and cultural belonging for many Sami people and, moreover, that it may contribute to emotion management . The authors argue that yoik presents a means for a direct and non-cognitive expression of emotions . It is thus different from talking about or discussing feelings, and is in this way rather similar to art related expressions of emotions such as for example painting. An important distinction to other arts is that yoik in some Sami population groups is an inherent part of everyday life, practiced continuously, accessible to everybody, and introduced during the first day of life. It might be interesting in this context, that the singing traditions of for example Inuit of Greenland and Native Americans have many functional similarities with those of the Sami [64–67].