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  2. Yoga pants - Wikipedia

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    A girl bending over on a dock, showing her yoga pants. Yoga originated in India as a spiritual practice. [3] In India in the early 20th century, the postures of medieval haṭha yoga were combined with movements from gymnastics, creating a new tradition of postural yoga. [4]

  3. Leggings - Wikipedia

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    Leggings made from cotton-lycra, or a cotton-polyester-lycra combination, are more typically worn for fashion, but are also worn as exercise wear. Cotton-lycra leggings are available in many colors, prints and designs; but black, navy and various shades of gray remain the most commonly worn.

  4. Virasana - Wikipedia

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    The yoga scholar Mark Singleton notes that a pose similar to Supta Virasana was described in Niels Bukh's early 20th century Danish text Primitive Gymnastics. Swami Kuvalayananda incorporated Supta Virasana into his system of exercises in the 1920s, from where it was taken up by the influential yoga teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya .

  5. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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    A single asana is listed for each main pose, whether or not there are variations. Thus for Sirsasana (Yoga headstand), only one pose is illustrated, although the pose can be varied by moving the legs apart sideways or front-and-back, by lowering one leg to the floor, by folding the legs into lotus posture, by turning the hips to one side, by placing the hands differently on the ground, and so on.

  6. Uttanasana - Wikipedia

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    The modern pose is described in Krishnamacharya's 1934 Yoga Makaranda, [5] and in the works of his pupils, B. K. S. Iyengar's 1966 Light on Yoga [6] and Pattabhi Jois's Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] Theos Bernard however illustrates the related pose "Padhahasthasana" (sic) in his 1944 report of his experience of hatha yoga on the border of ...

  7. Paschimottanasana - Wikipedia

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    The pose is a modern one, first seen in the 20th century. It is described in Krishnamacharya's 1934 Yoga Makaranda, [10] and in the works of his pupils, B. K. S. Iyengar's 1966 Light on Yoga [11] and Pattabhi Jois's Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga. [12] [9]

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.

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