Kinam is a modern exercise system based on Toltec philosophy and practices, drawn from written documentation and from sculptures, codices, and murals.
Components Kinam includes static poses, stretches, and other exercises. It also incorporates practices relating to sleep and dreams.
Comparisons and connections to other practices It has been compared to yoga, although it developed separately. It shares etymological convergence with the martial arts of Kinamutay, also an exercise-system, in the Philippines, wherein Filipinos adopted Nahuatl terminological influence, when the Mexican Viceroyalty of New Spain once ruled the Philippines.
As of 2025, it is a trending alternative to yoga in Mexico.
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