Sunday, June 24, 2007

Yoga as Fitness

Yoga is a group of ancient spiritual practices originating in India. As a general term in Hinduism, Gavin Flood,
the OCHS (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies) Academic Director, defines it as referring to "technologies or disciplines of asceticism and meditation which are thought to lead to spiritual experience and profound understanding or insight into the nature of existence."

Outside India, Yoga has become primarily associated with the practice of asanas (postures) of Hatha Yoga (see Yoga as exercise), although it has influenced the entire dharmic religions family and other spiritual practices throughout the world.

Yoga is most ancient kind of Fitness.

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