{"id":120,"date":"2009-10-16T12:31:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T19:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-10-27T06:31:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T13:31:40","slug":"fit-in-fitness-friday-take-a-yoga-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Fit in fitness Friday: Take a yoga class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take the family to a yoga class. Many local gyms and community centers offer weekend yoga classes designed to help increase muscular strength and reduce tension and stress. Yoga has a low potential for injury, is non-competitive, has spiritual and psychological benefits and a 5,000 year track record. The 84 basic yoga positions, or asanas, range from simple bending and twisting to pretzel-like contortions reserved for the most advanced practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>Yoga instructors suggest that yoga be studied with an experienced teacher rather than learned from a manual. Also note that yoga teachers in general are unlicensed and unregulated. Find an experienced teacher affiliated with a reputable yoga organization.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t get to a class, there are plenty of good yoga videos at your local library. Use books to supplement your training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take the family to a yoga class. Many local gyms and community centers offer weekend yoga classes designed to help increase muscular strength and reduce tension and stress. Yoga has a low potential for injury, is non-competitive, has spiritual and psychological benefits and a 5,000 year track record. The 84 basic yoga positions, or asanas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[147,146],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fit-in-fitness-friday","tag-fitness-friday","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}