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  2. 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 ...

  3. The Story of Yoga - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West [S 1] is a cultural history of yoga by Alistair Shearer, published by Hurst in 2020. It narrates how an ancient spiritual practice in India became a global method of exercise, often with no spiritual content, by way of diverse movements including Indian nationalism, the Theosophical Society, Swami Vivekananda's coming to the west, self ...

  4. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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    Haṭha yoga's non-postural practices such as its purifications are much reduced or absent in yoga as exercise. The term "hatha yoga" is also in use with a different meaning, a gentle unbranded yoga practice, independent of the major schools, often mainly for women. Practices vary from wholly secular, for exercise and relaxation, through to ...

  5. Yoga in Britain: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis

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    The book then examines the early self-taught yogis; the role of charismatic yoga gurus in adult education; the arrival of yoga evening classes for middle-class women; the 1960s, where yoga was associated with rock music and the counter-culture; yoga on television; yoga as therapy; and a tour of the diversity of yoga practice in Britain. [5]

  6. Yogachara - Wikipedia

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    Another objection that Vasubandhu answers is that of how one person can influence another's experiences, if everything arises from mental karmic seeds in one's mind stream. Vasubandhu argues that "impressions can also be caused in a mental stream by the occurrence of a distinct impression in another suitably linked mental stream."

  7. Yoga in Britain - Wikipedia

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    Yoga in Britain is the practice of yoga, including modern yoga as exercise, in Britain. Yoga, consisting mainly of postures ( asanas ), arrived in Britain early in the 20th century, though the first classes that contained asanas were described as exercise systems for women rather than yoga.

  8. 10 Yoga Exercises To Boost Mobility as You Age ... - AOL

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    That's why it's imperative to maintain a regular exercise regimen. We chatted with 63-year-old Helen Hughes-Smith, instructor for Y 10 Yoga Exercises To Boost Mobility as You Age, According to a ...

  9. Yoga and cultural appropriation - Wikipedia

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    She writes that the Hindu origins position, however, "ignore[s] the dynamic history of yoga", [9] and that protest "emerges from a distorted view of history that serves a fierce will to power". [9] The British yoga teacher Nadia Gilani, author of the 2022 book The Yoga Manifesto, [10] writes that modern yoga as exercise has lost its way. She ...