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Practicing Yoga is associated with establishing harmony, equanimity and balance. ... Yoga can help relieve stress and tension in a person’s daily life. The definition of Yoga in the dictionary, is a Hindu theistic philosophy, teaching the suppression of all activity of the body, mind, and will in order that the self may realize its distinction from them and attain liberation. In a more general term yoga is a system of exercises for attaining bodily, mental control and well-being. Yoga means union. ... Therefore, yoga refers to a certain state of consciousness as well as to methods that help one reach that goal or state of union with the divine. Many people confuse yoga with physical contortion, or think it is a religion. Yoga is none of these things. Yoga is basically a way of life which enables one to conserve energy and coordinate the power of body, mind, consciousness, which keeps the body healthy and the mind relaxed. Yoga is one of the world’s oldest branches of spiritual inquiry, and one of the longest standing, most intense experiments of the human spirit, according to the Shoshoni site: Getting in touch with Shoshoni. Yoga teaches guidelines and values to follow, and practices for purification for the body, mind and spirit. ... The spiritual tradition of yoga training has been passed down from generation to generation.
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