{"id":9969,"date":"2011-03-14T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9969"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:30:36","slug":"army-adds-yoga-to-training-regimen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/army-adds-yoga-to-training-regimen\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Adds Yoga to Training Regimen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of new articles highlight the already-noted trend of members of the US military using yoga in their physical training.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Military\/2011\/0304\/Army-s-new-physical-training-incorporates-yoga-resting\">new twist<\/a> is that yoga is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/germany\/germany-based-soldiers-add-yoga-to-pt-program-1.135979\">part of the <em>official<\/em> training<\/a> now, as opposed to simply being an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/15\/the-us-military-religion-and-yoga\/\">available class at the gym<\/a>:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To help troops prepare, the Army advocates training that incorporates cross-training, elements of yoga, and the benefits of rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The soldiers&#8230;are doing Power Vinyasa yoga as part of Soldier 360, a two-week course that teaches resiliency skills NCOs can use to help troops overcome the challenges of repeat deployments and stressful events such as witnessing the combat death of a comrade.<\/p>\n<p>We want the yoga to become a moving meditation so they can become lost in themselves and the outside world can shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Robert Cowans of the 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion said yoga will be mandatory at his PT sessions from now on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/02\/soldiers-practice-religion-during-joint-exercise\/\">spiritual aspects of yoga<\/a> have previously been discussed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of new articles highlight the already-noted trend of members of the US military using yoga in their physical training. A new twist is that yoga is actually part of the official training now, as opposed to simply being an available class at the gym:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,37,2,1560,10,171,167,1562,1561,708],"class_list":["post-9969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-buddhism","tag-military","tag-power-vinyasa","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-resilience","tag-robert-cowans","tag-soldier-360","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}