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For over five thousand years Yoga has been developing as a rigorous spiritual discipline for seeking inner peace and physical health through exercise and meditation. Yoga allows an easy approach to a quiet mind and relief from everyday stress, producing a clear, bright mind and a strong, capable body. |
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Yoga exercises ease tense muscles, tone up the internal organs, and improve the flexibility of the body's joints and ligaments. Yoga will release endorphins in the brain just as any other exercise program will, and produce a feeling of well being. Yoga postures, while exercising muscles and joints, also stretch, extend, and flex the spine, keeping the body strong and supple. |
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| Improvement of suppleness and strength is only one of the benefits of yoga. When combined with breathing techniques, Yoga stimulates blood circulation throughout the body. Yoga can be practiced by anyone of any age. All practitioners can achieve a more limber body, increased physical coordination, better posture, and improved flexibility without incurring the potentially negative effects associated with high-impact exercises. |
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| Yoga postures release stiffness and tension, help to renew energy, restore health, and promote graceful aging. Some Yoga postures sustain bone mass (very important for women). Relaxation and breathing exercises reduce stress and put you in touch with your inner strength. |
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Yoga is increasingly embraced by the medical community. Health professionals have long encouraged patients to practice yoga. Yoga is an integral part of many stress management programs endorsed and paid for by HMOs and other medical insurance companies. At Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, yoga postures and breathing techniques are recommended to patients with heart disease.
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