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Why Yoga Works

By KC Content Team

This has been an exciting time for yoga research, as more studies emerge that continue to shed light on how yoga is effective in alleviating many mental and physical health problems.

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Cultivating Calm in the Chaos through Yoga with Todd Norian

Calm is needed to maintain our health. With high levels of stress over a long period of time, the body breaks down. During these turbulent times, we need to get back to the calm, still center within.

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2022
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Insight Yoga: An Innovative Synthesis of Traditional Yoga, Meditation, and Eastern Approaches to Healing and Well-Being

Acclaimed yoga and meditation teacher Sarah Powers is known and loved for her unique approach—Insight Yoga—which combines traditional yoga with the meridians of Chinese medicine, as well as Buddhist meditation.

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Sarah Powers
2008
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Sacred Sanskrit Words: For Yoga, Chant, and Meditation

Joseph Campbell called Sanskrit “the great spiritual language of the world.

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Leza Lowitz, Reema Datta
2004
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The Eight Limbs of Yogic Meditation—Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras

All forms of Yogic Meditation practiced today are based on the Yoga Sutras—a Sanskrit scripture by the ancient Indian sage, Patanjali. This famous text prescribes a sequence of eight specific practices, ending with samadhi, to reach the ultimate goal of spiritual life.

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Patanjali
2019
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Who Is Patanjali and What Is Yoga? | A Film About Yoga in Simple Words | Project Shivoham

A compehensive documentary on Yoga, curated for a simple understanding!

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Patanjali
2021
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Yoga—Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali

Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms.

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Patanjali
1998
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The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary (Shambhala Classics)

Compiled in the second or third century CE, the Yoga-Sutra is a road map of human consciousness—and a particularly helpful guide to the mind states one encounters in meditation, yoga, and other spiritual practices.

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Patanjali
2025
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Peace and Freedom: Black Women’s Yoga and Health Freedom

Stephanie Y. Evans, Ph.D. is a Professor of Black Women's Studies and serves as Director of the Institute for Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University.

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Stephanie Y. Evans
2021
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The Science Behind Yoga

This is a 26 minute clip of a 30 minute whole.The full documentary was produced by Uplift TV.

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2016
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Meditating with the Body: A Course in Somatic Practices to Unlock Your Journey

A montage of interviews with Meditating with the Body(R) founder, Reginald A. Ray, teachers Tami Simon and David Iozzi; and participants in a meditation retreat. Filmed during retreat at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, where the course retreats are held.

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Reginald Ray
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