Yoga
     

Yoga is an applied spiritual science of mind and body. It originally comes from India and goes back over five thousand years. The Indian, in his Yoga Sutra defines yoga as the control of the activities of the mind. Yoga methods encompass the entire field of our existence, from the physical, emotional and mental to the spiritual. Its methods include ethical disciplines, physical postures, breathing control, as well as meditation. Practice of it help to bring about a natural balance of body and mind.

Yoga has become a very common term and popular in the Western world today, and yoga classes can be found in virtually every city or town. Most Westerners identify yoga with Hatha yoga.

Hatha yoga seeks to promote health and well-being through physical exercise. The regular practice of asanas, and breathing exercises (pranayama), makes the body strong.