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  2. Lotus position - Wikipedia

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    Lotus is one of the yoga poses that most commonly causes injury. [2] [28] Attempts to force the legs into lotus pose can injure the knees by squeezing and damaging the medial meniscus cartilage; this is painful and takes a long time to heal. The hip joints must rotate outwards approximately 115 degrees to permit full lotus. Students who cannot ...

  3. SAS language - Wikipedia

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    The SAS language is a fourth-generation computer programming language used for statistical analysis, created by Anthony James Barr at North Carolina State University ...

  4. Vajrasana (yoga) - Wikipedia

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    The reclining form of the pose, used in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, [6] is Supta Vajrasana. [7]Laghuvajrasana, an advanced pose in Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and Iyengar Yoga, has the thighs raised halfway from the sitting position, the crown of the head on the floor and the hands grasping the ankles.

  5. Yoga - Wikipedia

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    According to Tattvarthasutra, a second-to-fifth century Jain text, yoga is the sum of all activities of mind, speech and body. [k] Umasvati calls yoga the generator of karma, [205] and essential to the path to liberation. [205] In his Niyamasara, Kundakunda describes yoga bhakti—devotion to the path to liberation—as the highest form of ...

  6. SAS Institute - Wikipedia

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    SAS Institute (or SAS, pronounced "sass") is an American multinational developer of analytics and artificial intelligence software based in Cary, North Carolina. SAS develops and markets a suite of analytics software ( also called SAS ), which helps access, manage, analyze and report on data to aid in decision-making.

  7. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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    Yoga asanas were brought to America by the yoga teacher Yogendra. [27] [44] He founded a branch of The Yoga Institute in New York state in 1919, [45] [46] starting to make Haṭha yoga acceptable, seeking scientific evidence for its health benefits, [47] and writing books such as his 1928 Yoga Asanas Simplified [48] and his 1931 Yoga Personal ...

  8. Bikram Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Bikram Yoga is a system of hot yoga, a type of yoga as exercise, spread by Bikram Choudhury and based on the teachings of B. C. Ghosh, that became popular in the early 1970s. [1] Classes consist of a fixed sequence of 26 postures , practised in a room heated to 105 °F (41 °C) with a humidity of 40%, intended to replicate the climate of India .

  9. SAS (software) - Wikipedia

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    SAS is a software suite that can mine, alter, manage and retrieve data from a variety of sources and perform statistical analysis on it. [3] SAS provides a graphical point-and-click user interface for non-technical users and more through the SAS language.