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Article: Relaxing breathing techniques
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- October 16, 2003
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Florence Thomas
New Straits Times
10-16-2003
Relaxing breathing techniques
Byline: Florence Thomas
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Health
Column: Yoga for you
HATHA yoga postures and movements offer excellent, practical and effective ways of counter-acting stress and tension.
"Yoga has a calming effect on mental agitation," wrote Patanjali, the great yoga master, in his celebrated aphorisms over 2,000 years ago. "The path to joy is open to him whose mind is at peace."
The postures that we will be doing are designed to relax the body at the end of a yoga session.
The practice of yoga takes time to acquire and if at any time there is confusion as to how to breathe and move in and out ...