越來越多的美國人和孩子做瑜伽和冥想

If you can do a downward-facing dog, you're among the increasing numbers of Americans doing yoga.

如果你能做下犬式，那么你已經是美國瑜伽隊伍中的一員了。

A new report says more adults -- and even kids -- are practicing yoga and meditation.

一項新的報告稱，越來越多的成年人，甚至是孩子，正在練習瑜伽和冥想。

A government survey conducted last year found 14 percent of adults said they had recently done yoga and the same percentage had recently meditated.

去年政府進行的一項調查發(fā)現(xiàn)，14%的成年人說他們最近做過瑜伽，同樣比例的人最近做過冥想。

That's up from about 10 percent and 4 percent from a similar survey done five years earlier.

在五年前的一項類似調查中，這兩項比例分別為10%和4%。

For kids ages 4 through 17, about 8 percent had recently done yoga, up from 3 percent.

在4歲到17歲的孩子中，約8%的人最近做過瑜伽，之前是3%的比例。

For meditation, it was about 6 percent, similar to the earlier survey.

而在冥想方面，這一比例約為6%，與之前調查的比例相似。

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.

專家們稱，瑜伽、冥想和其他形式的補充性療法已經得到越來越多的推廣，以此來減輕壓力和焦慮，改善健康。