Yoga - Healthy Living

Background of yoga
Yoga is a science that originated in India about thousands of years back. It is referred as oldest personal development system for whole body. The word “Yoga” means "to join together," It gives harmony between our environment, body and our soul. Yoga makes the body relaxed and relieves off the person with all the tensions. Not only this, it gives physical benefits too.

Constituents of yoga
Yoga constitutes exercising, meditation and breathing. These three activities are designed in such a way that the glandular system of body is worked out thereby making body all more healthy. In yoga, body is treated as primary subject and its utmost care is taken of. Meditation is used to calm off mind and relieve it from all the tensions and stress of daily life. Breathing techniques are used to control the breath, which is considered as source of life in body.

Benefits
Without performing yoga for some time, you won’t feel the benefits of it, infact it looks like a series of simple physical exercise in start. After continuation of yoga for sometime, you will notice great change in your life, attitude and feeling of being happy. Various benefits can be summed up as:
1. Relaxation of body
2. Increase in concentration, attention and focus
3. Body toning
4. Healing of both internal and external body.
5. Flexibility
6. Body Nourishing

Six branches of Yoga

Hatha Yoga
It involves using physical poses, breathing techniques and meditation in order to make health perfect and have spiritual well being

Bhakti Yoga
It makes a person develop love, tolerance and acceptance. It teaches to have devotion towards god.

Raja Yoga
Raja means "royal". This yoga makes a person to respect himself deeply.
 
Jnana Yoga
It can be called as yoga of mind as it deals with knowledge and wisdom.

Karma Yoga
This yoga lays stress that your present life is a result of your past deeds and encourages you to do good deeds.

Tantra Yoga
This is the most miss-understood form of yoga. It involves rituals to experience purity in every thing we do. It aims to expand our vision towards life.

Performing yoga makes our life even more beautiful and lively. It is not at all difficult. Only thing needed is a will to have a happy healthy life. We at HomeGymCentral.com, aim to promote yoga to all corners of world, there by making world a happier and healthier place for all.