{"id":415,"date":"2008-06-03T22:20:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2008-06-03T22:20:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:20:47","slug":"yoga-hones-indian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/yoga-hones-indian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga hones Indian army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/world-news\/asia\/yoga-is-armys-secret-weapon-1394237.html?r=RSS\"> Indian army has introduced yoga as part of the training programme for troops<\/a>, and it has been found to be beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t much different from investment bankers doing their 24 minutes of ashtanga before donning their red braces to take over another company.\u00a0 It shows that yoga really is for all!\u00a0 Though of course once you extend beyond the physical dimension into the intellectual and spiritual training of yoga its pacifist and enlightened precepts will work against any belligerent intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian army has introduced yoga as part of the training programme for troops, and it has been found to be beneficial. This isn&#8217;t much different from investment bankers doing their 24 minutes of ashtanga before donning their red braces to take over another company.\u00a0 It shows that yoga really is for all!\u00a0 Though of &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/yoga-hones-indian-army\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yoga hones Indian army<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-6H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}