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Yoga for Health: A Beginner's Guide to Yoga

  By HealthMeUp  posted Dec 21st 2012 at 8:00AM IN | Avg Rating
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Yoga for Health: What is yoga?

‘Yoga is a commonly known generic term for physical, mental, and spiritual disciplines which originated in ancient India.’ As mentioned in Wikipedia,Yoga

But it was only in the 19th century that yoga was introduced to Western nations. According to Wikipedia, ‘Literal meaning of the Sanskrit word yoga which is "yoke", "to join", "to unite", or "to attach" from the root yuj’.

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