"When you practice yoga, you are able to live through stressful times without becoming stressed. Because The Yoga Center of Fresno's main goal is for you to experience mental and physical relaxation, we teach the postures in the proper way to release stress stored in muscles while shaping the body.
To some yoga is just another exercise program where well-shaped buns are the only goal. Pictures in magazines and other publications emphasize difficult yoga postures as the goal. Yoga sessions are performed like a gymnastics contest to determine the best yogi. This all has changed the public's perception of the true purpose and meaning of yoga. This is in part the great difference between modern yoga and The Yoga Center of Fresno's Yoga of the Old Masters. "
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