Page 10 of the book Gentle Yoga
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What is gentle yoga and why it is important?
If you wake up early morning and happen to see a cat or a dog waking up, you
would be amazed to observe that first thing they do in the morning is some gentle
stretches which help their body to get them back in working order.
These little animals seem to know important knowledge about stretches from
their basic instinct.
Although at first glance these gentle stretches may seem something insignificant,
however practically they are very important even though these gentle stretches
may not look as impressive as some of the unnecessary glorifying yoga postures
(which do not serve any practical purpose to most of the people except injuring
some) described in certain famous yoga books.
You can notice many people in their 60’s start having various joints pain, lower
back pain, neck pain etc for various reasons. The reasons could be our bad
sitting postures, unhealthy life style, lack of physical movement, etc.
Muscles which are not used regularly become weak over a period of time and
joints become stiff and free flow of energy in the body is