越来越多的美国人和孩子再做瑜伽和冥想

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，那么你已经是美国瑜伽队伍中的一员了。

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

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 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。

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

在五年前的一项类似调查中，这两项比例分别为10%和4%。

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

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

而在冥想方面，这一比例约为6%，与之前调查的比例相似。

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.

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。