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2. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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   She is sitting in Dandasana, staff pose. Yoga as exercise has been popularized in the Western world by claims about its health benefits. [165] The history of such claims was reviewed by William J. Broad in his 2012 book The Science of Yoga; he states that the claims that yoga was scientific began as Hindu nationalist posturing. [166]

3. Yoga as therapy - Wikipedia

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   At least three types of health claims have been made for yoga: magical claims for medieval haṭha yoga, including the power of healing; unsupported claims of benefits to organ systems from the practice of asanas; and more or less well supported claims of specific medical and psychological benefits from studies of differing sizes using a wide ...

4. Is hot yoga good for you? What to know about the benefits ...

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   In Bikram hot yoga, poses are performed in a 105-degree room with 40% humidity. For other hot yoga classes, the studios determine the temperature. ... The physical and mental benefits of doing ...

5. The Surprising Health Benefits of Hot Yoga You Might ... - AOL

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   Hot yoga can also help decrease stress and potentially improve mental health, says Seki. While yoga at cooler temps can also be effective at stress relief, turning up the heat can give you an ...

6. Yoga - Wikipedia

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   Baba Hari Dass writes that if yoga is understood as nirodha (mental control), its goal is "the unqualified state of niruddha (the perfection of that process)". [182] "Yoga (union) implies duality (as in joining of two things or principles); the result of yoga is the nondual state ... as the union of the lower self and higher Self.

7. Yogis reflect on the mental benefits of yoga during the pandemic

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   Yoga practitioners share how yoga has helped boost their mental and physical health during the pandemic.