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  2. Yoga as therapy - Wikipedia

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    Therapeutic yoga workshop, Jakarta, 2016. Yoga as therapy is the use of yoga as exercise, consisting mainly of postures called asanas, as a gentle form of exercise and relaxation applied specifically with the intention of improving health. This form of yoga is widely practised in classes, and may involve meditation, imagery, breath work ...

  3. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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    [143] [144] For healthy adults aged 18 to 65, the guidelines recommend moderate exercise for 30 minutes five days a week, [145] or vigorous aerobic exercise for 20 minutes three days a week. [144] Treated as a form of exercise, a complete yoga session with asanas and pranayama provides 3.3 ± 1.6 METs, on average a moderate workout.

  4. Feldenkrais Method - Wikipedia

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    The Feldenkrais Method is a type of alternative movement therapy that proponents claim can repair impaired connections between the motor cortex and the body, so benefiting the quality of body movement and improving wellbeing. [1][3] Practitioners view it as a form of somatic education [4] "that integrates the body, mind and psyche through an ...

  5. Mindful Yoga - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Mindful Yoga[1] or Mindfulness Yoga[2] combines Buddhist -style mindfulness practice with yoga as exercise to provide a means of exercise that is also meditative and useful for reducing stress. Buddhism and Hinduism have since ancient times shared many aspects of philosophy and practice including mindfulness, understanding the suffering ...

  6. Iyengar Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Iyengar Yoga, named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar, and described in his bestselling [1] 1966 book Light on Yoga, is a form of yoga as exercise that has an emphasis on detail, precision and alignment in the performance of yoga postures (asanas). The style often makes use of props, such as belts, blocks, and blankets, as aids in ...

  7. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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    An asana is a body posture, used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga. [1] The term is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'seat'. While many of the oldest mentioned asanas are indeed seated postures for meditation , asanas may be standing , seated, arm-balances, twists, inversions, forward bends, backbends , or reclining in prone or ...

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