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Annual Sunrise Yoga Festival returns to the Sun Bowl

Annual Sunrise Yoga Festival returns to the Sun Bowl

Sergio Muñoz, Contributor October 1, 2017

On Sunday, Oct. 1, the annual Sunrise Yoga Festival was celebrated in the Sun Bowl. One of the purposes of this event is the meditation and connection of the body with the Earth, as told by the event staff. People implemented several techniques for...

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A student practices yoga in Centennial Plaza.

Communication skills can stem from yoga, study finds

Grecia Sanchez, Staff Reporter November 8, 2016

Patricia Flores, doctoral student in rhetoric and composition studies, recently defended her dissertation this past Monday, Oct. 31, in which she associates yoga to an increase in interpersonal communication. According to Flores, besides health benefits...

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Education graduate student, Rasmiyeh Asam demonstrates one of the yoga poses she teaches.

New study seeks correlation between yoga and stress

Julia Hettiger, Staff Reporter September 1, 2015

The goal of a new study at The University of Texas at El Paso is to evaluate the impact of yoga on the stress and anxiety levels of students and their academic focus. The study also aims to gain the students’ perspective on whether or not yoga was effective...

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Doctoral candidate, Maricarmen Vizcaino demonstates the yoga she teaches to UTEP faculty and staff members.

Doctoral student’s research explores the impact of yoga on diabetes

Julia Hettiger, Staff Reporter April 14, 2015

Maricarmen Vizcaino, doctoral candidate in UTEP’s Interdisciplinary Health Sciences program, is writing her dissertation on the impact of yoga on people who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Vizcaino, a certified yoga instructor, has been teaching...

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Yoga keeps your mind fit and away from stress

Jose Soto, Staff Reporter April 1, 2014

Yoga and meditation don’t necessarily come to mind when thinking about fitness and exercise. This physical exercise is an ancient Hindu spiritual practice that entails asceticism. It involves control and discipline of breathing and bodily postures,...

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