Sentences with phrase «indian physical practice»

So what was closer than countering the European fitness and turner movement with an authentic Indian physical practice?

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The roots of yoga practice reach back to Indian as - cetics, who sought enlightenment through esoteric physical practices, mater - ial renunciation, and meditation.

In the early Indian source texts of the Nâţh yogis and of Hatha Yoga, we find a physical practice mainly relying on static exercise with a comparatively small number of exercises.

The preconditions to do so were good since the basic ideas of the European turner movement and the Indian Hatha Yoga seem surprisingly similar with both aiming to transform the mind by way of physical practice.