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Yoga is for everybody. People of all ages, sizes, and levels of fitness and flexibilty can practice yoga and benefit
from it. You do not have to contort into pretzel shape, nor do you have to sit cross-legged for hours on end chanting "Om."
At its core, yoga is common sense--learning to work with your own body, your own temperament, and your own breath to cultivate
physical, mental, and emotional health.
The word "yoga" in Sanskrit
translates as "union," or more literally, "to yoke." The practice of yoga is the practice of bringing together, or "yoking,"
those things which we have compartmentalized--for example, mind and body, and body and breath. In western medicine, physical
well-being and mental health are treated separately. Yoga makes no such distinctions. Physical sensations color the mental
state, and the mind, in turn, governs the body. Both the physical and the mental are inextricably bound to the breath.
For five thousand years, yogis have employed various tools to achieve this union,
using physical exercises, meditation techniques, and breath work. These tools, used together, enhance the well-being of the
practitioner, improving physical strength and suppleness, and mental clarity.
Yoga
is an experiental method which anyone can use. Breath Body Yoga tailors its teaching to the individual, helping its students
realize their own potential.
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