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  2. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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    Women in an outdoor yoga community class, Texas, 2010. 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.

  3. Choi Kwang Do - Wikipedia

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    Choi Kwang Do is a martial art developed by Choi Kwang-jo. The style relies on flexibility and fluidity of movement as opposed to the more rigid lines of some other martial arts. To achieve this it employs yoga-based stretching to develop the flexibility of practitioners. Furthermore, is focuses on a strong mind as well as a strong body.

  4. Asana - Wikipedia

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    Sjoman argues that the concept of stretching in yoga can be looked at through one of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, 2.47, which says that [asanas are achieved] by loosening (śaithilya) the effort and meditating on the endless . Sjoman points out that this physical loosening is to do with the mind's letting go of restrictions, allowing the natural ...

  5. 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] and ...

  6. Yin Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Yin Yoga was founded by martial arts expert and Taoist yoga teacher Paulie Zink in the late 1970s, and officially named as such by Sarah Powers. Yin Yoga is taught across the world, encouraged by its teachers Paul Grilley, Sarah Powers and Bernie Clark. As taught by Grilley, Powers and Clark, it is not intended as a complete practice in itself ...

  7. Khecarī mudrā - Wikipedia

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    A hatha yoga text, the Khecarīvidyā, states that khechari mudrā enables one to raise Kundalini and access various stores of amrita in the head, which subsequently flood the body. [14] The god Shiva , in the same text, gives instructions on how to cut the lingual frenulum as a necessary prerequisite for the khechari mudra practice: [ 15 ]

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