Yoga is an ancient Indian philosophy and way of life, where complete harmony between body and
mind is achieved by
special exercise (Asanas), breathing excercises (Pranayama) and meditation. Yoga is the product of thousand
years of
research done by Rishis in ancient India. The aim of yoga is to live a healthy, joyful living and attain
self-enlightenment. Yoga means to unite with the source of our own being.
In yoga through practices of holding a variety of body positions Or asanas, and the centering
of the mind and breath
in
a meditative way, the practitioner increases body awareness, posture, flexibility of body and mind and calmness
of
spirit.
Yoga is that which joins the verbal root as ‘yuj’ in samskrta means joining. In traditional
terminology it is
joining of
the individual self, jivatma with the universal self, Parramatta. The expansion of the narrow constricted
egoistic
personality to an all pervasive, eternal and blissful state of reality. Yoga is a science that deals with body,
breath,
mind, soul, and ultimately, the universe itself. It is both practical and theoretical.
― Nobel Prize Winner shri. Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali.