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2. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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   Yoga as exercise is a physical activity consisting mainly of postures, often connected by flowing sequences, sometimes accompanied by breathing exercises, and frequently ending with relaxation lying down or meditation. Yoga in this form has become familiar across the world, especially in the US and Europe.

3. The Beginner's Guide to Yoga - AOL

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   Yoga is one of those things that we’ve almost all heard about, but very few of us know the full depths of what yoga is, where it came from, or how it’s come to be what it is today. As a ...

4. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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   An asana (Sanskrit: आसन, IAST: āsana) is a body posture, used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga. [1] The term is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'seat'. While many of the oldest mentioned asanas are indeed seated postures for meditation , asanas may be standing , seated, arm-balances, twists, inversions, forward bends ...

5. Postures of Bikram Yoga - Wikipedia

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   The postures include 24 asanas (poses in modern yoga as exercise), one pranayama breathing exercise, and one shatkarma, a purification making use of forced breathing. Bikram Yoga was devised by Bikram Choudhury around 1971 when he moved to America.

6. A Complete Guide to Yoga for Beginners - AOL

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   Everything you need to know about yoga, including the best yoga poses for beginners at home.

7. Yoga - Wikipedia

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   A number of yoga texts, such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads, have borrowed from (or frequently refer to) the Yoga Yajnavalkya. [197] It discusses eight yoga asanas (Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura), [ 198 ] a number of breathing exercises for body cleansing, [ 199 ...

8. Asana - Wikipedia

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   A 2014 study indicated that different asanas activated particular groups of muscles, varying with the skill of the practitioners, from beginner to instructor. The eleven asanas in the Surya Namaskar sequences A and B (of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga) were performed by beginners, advanced practitioners and instructors. The activation of 14 groups of ...

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