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Article Excerpt
Yoga has been practiced for thousands of years in India and is based on the principle of mind-body unity. In its simplest western form, Yoga is a meditation program that includes exercises to help improve flexibility and breathing, decrease stress, and maintain health.
In today's marketplace, where change is common and lightening-fast, it is easy to see why Yoga is sweeping the nation. Today, yoga has a following of about 20 million participants. This number has more that tripled since 1994 when it was only 6 million. According to Trisha Lamb Feuerstein, the head of the Yoga Research and Education Center in Santa Rosa, Calif., women still dominate yoga classes. Most classes are about 80 percent female. However, more and more men are entering the world of yoga, to reduce stress, aches and pains, and possibly, meet some of those women!
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