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"A rose by any other name smells as sweet," and yoga by any other name creates health and inner peace. Taking a few deep breaths before you do something rash is yoga. So is stretching your body toward the sky while taking a deep breath, then letting it hang forward as you exhale, after a long stretch of driving. You can call these practices whatever you like, but the tool, the technology, and the process of getting to a place of peace within yourself began in a land that, in its original language of Sanskrit, called it yoga.

Forget those images of acrobatic backbends and pretzel-like postures! You are not required to be in perfect pysical shape to do yoga. Yoga is vastly adaptable. It works for you simply if you are alive and breathing.

TRIVIA:
Yoga journal magazine recently commissioned the Roper Poll in the US to do a nationwide survey exploring people's views on yoga. It found that 6 million Americans practice yoga regularly. An additional 16 million expresssed an interest in taking classes.