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As our knowledge of health and fitness increases, people are becoming more and more interested in not only taking care of themselves physically, but mentally and spiritually as well.As a result, many are turning to more complete approaches to health, including less mainstream fitness methods such as yoga. 随着我们对健康与健身的知识与日俱增，人们在关心身体健康的同时，越来越关注心理与精神的健康。因此，许多人转而寻求更全面的途径来增进健康，包括一些还未成为主流的健身方式，如瑜伽。 Yoga’s origins lie in Hindu philosophy, which was developed thousands of years ago in India.Today, yoga is a system of movements and meditation that emphasizes physical control and discipline as a way to achieve a state of spiritual knowledge. 瑜伽起源于印度哲学，这种哲学在印度已经发展了数千年。如今，瑜伽是一组强调身体控制与修身养性的运动和静坐，是达到“天人合一”这种境界的一个有效途径。 Yoga’s ideal state of knowledge is reached after a person has gone through eight different stages.These include aspects of self-control, religion, postures, regulation of breath, restraint of senses, steadying of the mind, meditation, and profound thought.For a practitioner of yoga, or“yogi”the progression through these stages is a movement from the physical toward a perfect mental state. | 
