Yoga for Healthy Life

Relieve from depression, stress, and tension required regular practice of yoga. Yoga is the best exercise to get rid from the disease.

Yoga comes from the Sanskrit word meaning join or unite. This implies union between body, mind and soul of the individual to achieve the good health and well being. There are 8 disciplines of yoga which includes

1.Asanas - practice of the yoga postures or position.
2.Dharana- concentration or focus
3.Dhyana- meditation
4.Pranayama- Breathing technique
5.Niyama- Principles of self conduct: purity, self-surrender and satisfaction.
6.Samadhi- the state of higher consciousness where the individual dissolves in the meditation
7.Yama- Universal ethics like sexual restraint, non-stealing, truthfulness, non-violence.
8.Pratyahara- Control of Sense

These are the disciplines of yoga but if person do regular practice of yoga position, meditation and breathing technique. He will get rid from all disease like depression, stress, back pain, high blood pressure, obesity etc.

The yoga position or postures can be classified into the seven categories like

1. Standing yoga position - Chair Position, Eagle Position
2. Forward bends yoga position - Child's Position
3. Sitting yoga position - lotus position, Bound Angle Position
4. Lying position -- Corpse position, Fish Position
5. Twisting yoga position
6. Upside down yoga position
7. Back bending yoga position

Research proved that regular practice of yoga position, breathing techniques has many benefits like weight reduction, blood pressure normalize, immune power increase, increase of concentration, increase flexibility of body, detoxification of body system.

Credited by Jennifer Miller