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Is there more to yoga than exercise?

J Andy Smith1, Tammy Greer, Timothy Sheets

  • 1The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA.

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
|December 15, 2011
PubMed
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Integrated yoga, including ethical and spiritual elements, offers greater benefits than yoga as exercise alone. Both practices reduce depression and stress, but integrated yoga uniquely lowers anxiety and cortisol levels.

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