What is Yoga? What is Yoga and why do people practise Yoga

Yoga is one of the most ancient forms of body movement, and one of the safest. The emphasis is on working from within the body and allowing the body to limit the movement.

The goal of yoga, or of the person practicing yoga, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility.

For many Yoga is a way to relax in this stress-filled world, for others it is a way of keeping healthy and mobile, and for some it is a way of getting in touch with their inner being and improving their powers of concentration.

"The Sanskrit word yoga has the literal meaning of 'yoke', or 'the act of yoking or harnessing', from a root yuj. In Vedic Sanskrit, the term 'yoga' besides its literal meaning, the yoking or harnessing of oxen or horses, already has a figurative sense, where it takes the general meaning of 'employment, use, application, performance'. The more technical sense of the term 'yoga', describing a system of meditation or contemplation with the aim of the cessation of mental activity and the attaining of a "supreme state" arises with early Buddhism."
[source: Wikipedia]

Read more about Yoga in the articles below.

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