MIX Means Variety » yoga http://mix941kmxj.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:14:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Parents Get All Bent Out of Shape Over School's Yoga Program, Cite Religious Objection http://mix941kmxj.com/parents-get-all-bent-out-of-shape-over-schools-yoga-program-cite-religious-objection/ http://mix941kmxj.com/parents-get-all-bent-out-of-shape-over-schools-yoga-program-cite-religious-objection/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:00:04 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=147562 Over the last couple decades, yoga has gone from being thought of as a mystical ancient Indian discipline to a mainstream exercise practiced the world over.

In fact, all students in the Encinitas Union School District, which is in the San Diego area, now do yoga twice a week as part of their physical education curriculum. But this isn't sitting well with some parents, who are worried that the Hindu philosophy on which yoga is based is seeping into these lessons.

]]> http://mix941kmxj.com/parents-get-all-bent-out-of-shape-over-schools-yoga-program-cite-religious-objection/feed/ 0 iStockphoto What Is Yoga Helping US Military Soldiers Fight Against? http://mix941kmxj.com/us-military-soldiers-yoga-ptsd/ http://mix941kmxj.com/us-military-soldiers-yoga-ptsd/#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:55:06 +0000 Kathy Landin http://tsminteractive.com/?p=66705 Yoga. Whether you can’t get enough of it or can’t get away from it, there’s no denying its peaceful approach to connecting one’s body and mind. Who’d have thought that this practice is now more and more becoming the method of choice for relieving PTSD symptoms in US soldiers?

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