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Why Practice Yoga? Yoga in your everyday life! |
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Yoga is everywhere! You see it on talk shows, hear about everyone from professional athletes to professional couch potatoes practicing it... but what is yoga all about? |
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Although magazines call it the new exercise trend, yoga practice is nearly 5,000 years old. Yoga is not a religion, but instead a system for harmonizing body, mind and spirit, providing a venue for quiet contemplation in which all beliefs are honored. Yoga movements are done with deep, smooth breathing, and combined with guided relaxation to help "tone down the noise" of our hurried lifestyles. It's important to understand that yoga isn't a physical fitness or weight loss gimmick. Like anything that has lasting effects, yoga requires regular practice, patience and persistence. We need to do it, not just think about it. The results are worth it: along with enhancing our physical health, yoga helps us to be more present and emotionally balanced in our day to day lives. We begin to feel like human "beings" who enjoy and appreciate life, instead of mechanical human "doings" who simply spin life's treadmill. This freedom and peace is at the heart of yoga. |
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