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2. Erich Schiffmann - Wikipedia

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   Erich Schiffmann (born 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American yoga master, [1] known for his 1994 video, Yoga Mind & Body, featuring actress Ali MacGraw. [2] He is the author of a best-selling book, Moving into Stillness. [3] He has taught yoga for more than forty years.

3. Mindful Yoga - Wikipedia

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   The Vice President of India, Venkaiah Naidu, releasing Mansi Gulati's book Yoga and Mindfulness, [12] New Delhi, 2018. The yoga teacher Michelle Ribeiro writes that Mindful Yoga "applies traditional Buddhist mindfulness teachings to the physical practice of yoga; it is the holistic approach of connecting your mind to your breath."

4. Mindfulness-based stress reduction - Wikipedia

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   Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) classes and programs are offered at various facilities, including hospitals, retreat centers, and yoga studios. [23] These programs typically focus on teaching: Mind and body awareness to reduce the physiological effects of stress, pain, or illness.

5. Mind–body interventions - Wikipedia

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   The United States National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) defines mind-body interventions as activities that purposefully affect mental and physical fitness, listing activities such as yoga, tai chi, pilates, guided imagery, guided meditation and forms of meditative praxis, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, and prayer, as well as ...

6. Yoga as therapy - Wikipedia

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   The history of remedial yoga goes back to the pioneers of modern yoga, Krishnamacharya and Iyengar. Iyengar was sickly as a child, and yoga with his brother-in-law Krishnamacharya improved his health; it had also helped his daughter Geeta, so his response to his students' health issues, in Newcombe's view, "was an intense and personal one."

7. Yoga in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The yoga scholar Andrea Jain comments that this marked the start of a split between a modern, physical yoga that celebrated the body, and a more traditional meditative practice that, like Vivekananda's yoga, essentially shunned it. [13] Pierre Bernard in lotus position, 1939. He brought attention to yoga but caused the public to associate it ...

8. Relaxation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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   Nevins notes that yoga’s ability to create mental clarity, calmness, and center attention can make it an effective tool for relieving chronic stress. Whether practiced for a few minutes or a more extended session, yoga helps center the mind, increase focus, and provide a deep sense of relaxation, making it a valuable part of a mental self ...

9. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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   Iyengar writes that savasana puts the practitioner in "that precise state [where] the body, the breath, the mind and the brain move toward the real self (Atma)" so as to merge into the Infinite, thus explaining the modern yoga healing ritual in terms of the Hindu Vishishtadvaita: an explanation that, De Michelis notes, practitioners are free to ...