1 . Life can be stressful. For starters, there’s your busy schedule — waking up early for school, studying late at night for tests, participating in sports practice and so on. There’s a lot to ________!

Everyday issues can add ________ stress, too — regretting a(n) ________ with a parent or considering an important ________. With lots on your mind, it’s ________ to feel stressed.

There are many different ways to cope with ________, such as talking with friends, exercising, and seeing a school counselor. Yoga can help ________ stress because it promotes relaxation, which is the natural ________ of stress. Yoga can benefit three aspects of ourselves that are often ________ by stress: our body, mind, and breathing.

People who do a little bit of yoga each day often find they are better able to handle things when life gets a little crazy. Practicing yoga builds your ________ to calm, focus, balance, and relax yourself.

Lots of people think of yoga as stretching the body into various impossible-looking ________. But yoga is easier than it looks. There are simple poses as well as complicated ones. Yoga requires no special ________, so you can do it almost anywhere.

Yoga poses are good exercise and can help loose up the tense muscle in your body. The areas of the body that tend to carry the most stress are the neck and shoulders. But other parts of the body can also ________ simple yoga stretches.

Yoga is so much more than just ________ exercise, though. The key to getting the best out of each pose is to ________ not only on your body, but also on your mind and breathing.