About yoga and postures and asanas involved in yoga. Basically yoga is derived from sanskrit and terms used here are also derived from sanskrit. I have explained the topic well. Hope you will enjoy reading it.

1. YOGA
PRESENTED BY:
SAGAR KOIRALA
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2. Introduction
 Yoga is a spiritual discipline
 It focuses on bringing harmony between mind, body and soul
 Yoga was derived from Sanskrit word Yuj meaning to join/unite
 It improve strength, balance and flexibility
 It helps to improve blood flow and makes our body warm
 It also helps to remove stress or tension
 It has also been found to lower heart problems and blood pressure
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3. Meditation/ Dhyana
 Dhyana is a Sanskrit word meaning meditation
 Dhyana is made up of two words dhi meaning receptacle/ mind and yana
meaning moving/going
 Dhyana requires deep mental concerntration
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4. Importances of Meditation
 It is major component of yoga
 It helps to remove negative emotions like anger, fear, depression
 It keeps mind calm and quiet
 It helps to increase concentration
 It refresh whole body
 It leads to self realization
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5. Simple Meditation
 Sit in any meditative posture
 Make your back straight
 Touch the tip of thumb with tip of index finger forming circle
 Remaining fingers should be kept straight and relaxed
 Keep your palm facing sky in thigh
 Close your eyes and look upward (slightly)
 Keep arms and shoulders loose and relaxed
 Start meditating
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6. Pranayama
 Pranayama is made from 2 words prana meaning vital life force and yama means
to gain control
 Breathing is related with prana (life)
 Pranayama refers to breathing exercises that clears physical and emotional
difficulties in our body to free breath and flow of prana (life)
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7. Practice of Pranayama
 Sit in comfortable pose
 Close your eyes
 Breathe in through nose counting upto 4
 Hold the breathe for 4 count
 Breathe out counting 4 more count
 Repeat this for four minutes
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8. Anulom Vilom
 It is a type of pranayama
 Breathing practice
 Advantages:
 It improves breathing
 Improves functioning of heart
 Reduces stress
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9. Practices of Anulom Vilom
 Should be performed on empty stomach
 First choose a meditating pose
 Make your back straight
 Close your eyes and don’t keep anything in mind
 Place thumb in right nostril and ring finger in left nostril
 Close right nostril with thumb and inhale until lungs are full
 Then release thumb and exhale from right nostril by
closing left nostril with ring finger
 Repeat for multiple times
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10. Bhastrika Pranayama
 When we do certain physical activity our body need more oxygen
 When we need more oxygen our heart pump blood faster
 It is a technique which boost our body
 Also called yogic breath of fire
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11. Procedures/ steps/ method/ process
 Sit in comfortable position
 Close your fist and arms should be kept near shoulders
 Inhale deeply and raise our hands straight up and open fists
 Now exhale forcefully and bring arms down next to shoulders and close fists
 Continue for 20 breathe
 Relax keeping palms on thighs
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12. Kapalbhati pranayama
 Kapalbhati comes from Sanskrit words kapal meaning forehead and bhati
meaning shining
 So kapalbhati pranayama means forehead shining breathing technique
 Gives shining forehead and intellect
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13. Process /procedures /method/ steps
 Sit in comfortable place
 Inhale and exhale rapidly without body movements
 Relax deeply
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14. Postures of Yoga
 Posture= asanas
 Good posture involve body to stand walk, sit and lie
 There are many yoga pose but in class 5 we have to study:
 Mountain pose
 Triangle pose
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15. Mountain pose
 Also called tadasana
 Standing pose
 There are many variations
 This pose prepare body for other pose
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16. Procedures/ steps/ process
 Stand comfortably on a surface
 Feet should be close and parallel
 Keep arms straight along the side of body
 Move your shoulders a bit backward and make your
palm face upward
 Remain in this pose for 3 deep breaths
 Try to raise higher and try to push your sole( feet) towards ground
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17. Triangle pose
 The name is given because our body takes the shape of triangle while doing this
pose
 There are many variations
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18. Procedures
 Stand straight and keep our legs apart
 Extend hand so it become parallel to ground
 inhale and raise right hand
 Exhale and bend waist towards left side
 While bending touch left ankle with left hand
 Keep right hand straight
 Turn your head towards ceiling
 Hold and repeat process
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19. Postures
Mountain Pose
 Improves body awareness
 Makes our legs strong
 Makes body flexible
Triangle Pose
 Stretch hips, shoulders
 Strengthen our legs
 Makes body flexible
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