如果你能做下犬式,那么你已经是美国瑜伽队伍中的一员了。
If you can do a downward-facing dog, you're among the increasing numbers of Americans doing yoga.
一项新的报告称,越来越多的成年人,甚至是孩子,正在练习瑜伽和冥想。
A new report says more adults -- and even kids -- are practicing yoga and meditation.
去年政府进行的一项调查发现,14%的成年人说他们最近做过瑜伽,同样比例的人最近做过冥想。
A government survey conducted last year found 14 percent of adults said they had recently done yoga and the same percentage had recently meditated.
在五年前的一项类似调查中,这两项比例分别为10%和4%。
That's up from about 10 percent and 4 percent from a similar survey done five years earlier.
在4岁到17岁的孩子中,约8%的人最近做过瑜伽,之前是3%的比例。
For kids ages 4 through 17, about 8 percent had recently done yoga, up from 3 percent.
而在冥想方面,这一比例约为6%,与之前调查的比例相似。
For meditation, it was about 6 percent, similar to the earlier survey.
专家们称,瑜伽、冥想和其他形式的补充性疗法已经得到越来越多的推广,以此来减轻压力和焦虑,改善健康。
Experts say yoga, meditation and some other forms of complementary medicine have been increasingly promoted as ways to reduce stress and anxiety and improve health.