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- Accessible yoga is a form of modern yoga as exercise with adapted asanas designed to be suitable for people who are unable to follow a standard yoga class through age, illness, or disability. It includes various forms of what has been called Chair Yoga, and has also been described as adaptive yoga. Yoga, originally a meditational spiritual practice in India, was transformed in the 20th century into an exercise practice. It was then marketed across the Western world with the image of a young, slim, fit female body, possibly suggesting that it was not suitable for other groups of people. Since 1979, efforts have been made by multiple yoga teachers to make yoga more accessible to people unable to participate in traditional yoga classes through aging, injury, or disability. There is evidence that yoga offers small to moderate benefits on a range of measures in an older adult population. (en)
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