Gabriel Hernández
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Yoga was created as a spiritual practice thousand years ago. Today most people from occident do yoga as exercise and to relieve stress.
There are many types of yoga and the go from mild to intense, some of them are:
- Ashtanga or "Power yoga": Offers a demanding exercise and you change postures very quickly.
- Bikram or "hot yoga": A serie of 26 postures in a room at 35°C - 37°C and the main goal is to stretch muscles, tendons and purify your body through by sweating.
- Hatha yoga: Occasionaly is used for general yoga, it includes breathing and posture.
- Integral: Mild type of yoga which includes chants and meditation.
- Iyengar: In here body alignment is important and may require keeping postures for long periods of time. .
- Kundalini: Emphasizes the effects of breathing over posture. The main goal is to release energy from your lower parts of the body so they can flow up.
- Viniyoga: This style adapts its postures to peoples' needs and abilities while coordinates breathing and postures.
Here's an amazing thing, learning a new language while doing yoga