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Yoga is famous for improving flexibility and encouraging relaxation, but more and more research shows that the practice offers benefits that go beyond calming you down.

Learn more from the Rodale.com news archive:

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5 Surprising Ways Yoga Affects Your Health

What you can do: Incorporate a yoga routine into your week for all-around wellness.

How to Use Yoga to Prevent Swine Flu

What you can do: Tune up your immune system to the max with 15 minutes of yoga every other day.

Best Yoga for Lower Back Pain

What you can do: New to yoga? Try a few easy poses that will help alleviate your aching back.

Try Holiday Yoga and Bounce Back from Too Much Merriment

What you can do: Try these yoga moves to ease yourself back into the workweek, and keep using them throughout the holiday season.

Research IDs 9 Back-Pain Remedies That Really Work

What you can do: Rule out four specific conditions that respond to surgery, then try different treatment strategies until you find the ones that ease your pain.

Is Yoga All the Exercise You Need?

What you can do: Try one yoga session a week to stay healthier, happier, less stressed, and maybe even thinner.

Garden Yoga: 6 Poses to Rejuvenate Your Body During the Growing Season

What you can do: Use props like a bench or your garden rake to stretch your way into more comfortable gardening.

10 Yoga Poses for Defeating Diabetes

What you can do: Find a certified yoga instructor, then try some simple poses that help improve circulation and speed up metabolism.

Yoga Lowers Cholesterol and Body Fat

What you can do: Try adding some yoga moves to your exercise plan…we've got some great poses to get you started.