Sivananda yoga

/ (ˌsɪvəˈnændə) /

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a gentle form of yoga which concentrates on breathing control, stretching, and silent meditation

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How to use Sivananda yoga in a sentence

For a while yoga and pilates classes were sought out at luxury gyms like Equinox.
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She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
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Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.
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Alison, meanwhile, had gone to a yoga retreat with her hippy-dippy mother.
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“I would go with yoga, light weight training or some elliptical,” he says.
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You will simply lose the right to deny Yoga-Vidya, the great ancient science of my country.
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Movement increases the exhaled carbonic acid, and so the Yoga practice prescribes avoidance of movement.
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A form of Yoga that is said to consist in the mingling of some of the air supposed to exist in every animal body.
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He adds minute instructions on the technique of penance and ends with some definitions of the yoga of devotion.
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He became the favored disciple of a priest who taught him the mystic doctrines of the Yoga.
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