Is Yoga a pseudoscience?

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Ekta Kanwar

Yoga has sometimes been marketed with pseudoscientific claims for specific benefits, when it may be no better than other forms of exercise in those cases; and some claims for its effects on particular organs, such as that forward bends eject toxins from the liver, are entirely unfounded.
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COACHING SINCE 2000 To till day

Yes Yoga as become pseudoscience with different adpects d benefits and guided from superiors anf claim the befits
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YCB & AYUSH certified yoga trainer from India with 4 years of teaching experience

It's not pseudo science! In fact it is more than science! Whole Science and is based on assumptions though If I talk about Yoga considered to be a science then it is totally justifies science parameters. In fact it goes beyond science. I can summarise it to by one example..yoga includes breath work which...
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It's not pseudo science! In fact it is more than science! Whole Science and is based on assumptions though If I talk about Yoga considered to be a science then it is totally justifies science parameters. In fact it goes beyond science. I can summarise it to by one example..yoga includes breath work which is directly connected to your nervous system which controls your body&mind hence it balances your whole body & mind. read less
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