{"id":393694,"date":"2010-03-05T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/05\/5-myths-about-yoga\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:13:00","slug":"5-myths-about-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393694","title":{"rendered":"5 Myths About Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"While practically everyone and their cousin has attended a yoga class at least once and thus have a basic understanding of the practice and its benefits, myths still perpetuate. I’d like to use today’s post to bust them in an effort to get you last hold-outs out to try a class! <\/p>\n

<\/strong>1. Yoga won’t get you in shape, it’s all about chanting and loving yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yoga can make you strong and fit. With proper breathing and consistent practice, yoga can help circulate blood flow and oxygen to all areas of your body, strengthening and toning your muscles and giving you more energy. But yoga is not only a physical practice, it is a mental, and spiritual practice made up of asanas (poses), as well as seven other components: constraints, observances, breathing techniques, sense control, concentration, meditation, and divine union.

<\/strong>2. Yoga is a religion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yoga has been part of Indian, specifically, Hindu culture for 5000 years and ancient yogic texts back this up. Yoga is not a religion and it’s open to all people of various beliefs. Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice. It’s a way of living that teaches us to be healthy and happy by helping us reach the highest goal of evolution: knowing the self.<\/p>\n


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While practically everyone and their cousin has attended a yoga class at least once and thus have a basic understanding of the practice and its benefits, myths still perpetuate. I’d like to use today’s post to bust them in an effort to get you last hold-outs out to try a class! 1. Yoga won’t get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}