{"id":1103,"date":"2014-02-04T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T10:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2014-02-04T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T02:24:12","slug":"yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons I Practice Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yoga\" target=\"_blank\">Yoga<\/a>. There are so many benefits in practicing yoga, I could stop here and let you do your own research. But I won&#8217;t do that because I want to give you some insight into my experiences with yoga. Here are some random thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yoga has improved my blood pressure<\/li>\n<li>Yoga has help center me<\/li>\n<li>Yoga has sharpened my focus on the <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/personhood\" target=\"_blank\">personhood<\/a> of God<\/li>\n<li>Yoga has built my strength and flexibility<\/li>\n<li>Yoga has quieted my obsessive mind<\/li>\n<li>Yoga has helped my overall wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Yoga has played a major role in my epic living<\/li>\n<li>Yoga has challenged me mentally, physically and spiritually<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Yoga has helped me see the importance of nutrition<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Yoga has become a habit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am no where close to being a master of this art. I am, however evidence of the power that comes from practicing yoga. Talk to your doctor about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/07\/146463156\/the-risks-and-rewards-of-practicing-yoga\" target=\"_blank\">risks and rewards<\/a>, then start slow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoga. There are so many benefits in practicing yoga, I could stop here and let you do your own research. But I won&#8217;t do that because I want to give you some insight into my experiences with yoga. Here are some random thoughts: Yoga has improved my blood pressure Yoga has help center me Yoga&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,7],"tags":[1504,1503,823,180,250,220,92,113,75,1502,119,240,17,42,252,1501],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-uncategorized","category-wellbeing","tag-doctor","tag-doctors-advice","tag-epic-living","tag-eric-pennington","tag-exercise","tag-god","tag-health","tag-learning-2","tag-life-choices","tag-risk-and-reward","tag-self-help","tag-well-being","tag-wellbeing-2","tag-wellness","tag-yoga","tag-yoga-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}