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How exactly does this position "Strengthen the immune system"? 148.177.129.212 13:33, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The benefits are those stated by yoga teachers and practitioners. I know of no specific determination of how the benefits are triggered. --Nemonoman 14:33, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Then I will edit it. --JD79 15:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Excessive Downward Dog

I did a lot of Hatha Yoga in my youth, around 45 years ago. I don't remember downward dog at all from that time.

I started going to yoga classes around 5 years ago and it was completely different from former days. Just about every 2nd or 3rd posture for the whole hour was downward dog. It was completely alien to me.

I just came from a yoga class this evening in which they did downward dog about 20 times in a one hour class. There was no plough position, no shoulder stand, no sitting twist, and so on. (I don't remember the Sanskrit names for these familiar and basic asanas.)

What on earth is going on? What is called Hatha Yoga in the US in the 21 century is absolutely unrecognizable from the Hatha Yoga familiar to those of us who practiced it in the 1960s and 1970s. ---Dagme (talk) 05:45, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]