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  2. Science of yoga - Wikipedia

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    Yoga is here treated separately from meditation, which has effects of its own, though yoga and meditation are combined in some schools of yoga. Yoga has been studied scientifically since the 19th-century physiology experiments of N. C. Paul. The early 20th-century pioneers Yogendra and Kuvalayananda both set up institutes to study yoga ...

  3. Yoga as therapy - Wikipedia

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    Iyengar was sickly as a child, and yoga with his brother-in-law Krishnamacharya improved his health; it had also helped his daughter Geeta, so his response to his students' health issues, in Newcombe's view, "was an intense and personal one." [20] In effect Iyengar was treating "remedial yoga" as analogous to Henrik Ling's medical gymnastics. [20]

  4. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

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    Yoga asanas were brought to America by the yoga teacher Yogendra. [27] [44] He founded a branch of The Yoga Institute in New York state in 1919, [45] [46] starting to make Haṭha yoga acceptable, seeking scientific evidence for its health benefits, [47] and writing books such as his 1928 Yoga Asanas Simplified [48] and his 1931 Yoga Personal ...

  5. Trauma-sensitive yoga - Wikipedia

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    Trauma-sensitive yoga is yoga as exercise, adapted from 2002 onwards for work with individuals affected by psychological trauma. [1] [2] Its goal is to help trauma survivors to develop a greater sense of mind-body connection, [3] to ease their physiological experiences of trauma, [3] to gain a greater sense of ownership over their bodies, [2] and to augment their overall well-being. [3]

  6. Yin Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Yin Yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga (as exercise), ... passive floor poses that primarily affect the lower part of the body—the hips, pelvis, inner thighs, lower ...

  7. Asana - Wikipedia

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    The asanas have been popularised in the Western world by claims about their health benefits, attained not by medieval hatha yoga magic but by the physical and psychological effects of exercise and stretching on the body. [122]