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Yoga pose works on your mind and body and makes your body lighter and healthier.

Yoga pose helps in supply of blood to brain and various parts of the body.

Your body becomes purified and you become healthy and conscious.

Some of the yoga poses are described here.

Lotus pose (padmasana): Lotus pose requires crossing your legs while keeping your back straight. Sit down on the floor with legs stretched and keeping your palms down. Hold your right foot and put it on the left thigh until it touches the hip joint. Similarly, hold your left foot and put it on the right thigh until it touches the hip joint. Keep your hands upwards or downwards.

This pose has lot of benefits such as increasing attentiveness, stimulating body parts, relaxing effect and increasing awareness. It also develops in maintaining good body posture.

Easy pose (sukhasana): Easy pose is a comfortable seated position for meditation. Sit on the floor by crossing the legs and placing the feet below the knees. Place your palms facing up on the knees. Press your hip bones down in to the floor. Drop the shoulders down and back and press the chest forwards. This pose is used to open the hips and strengthen the spine.

Kundalini yoga is a dynamic yoga which is kept secret for millenniums.

It is a method of expanding consciousness and maintaining the new awareness.

It concentrates on the awakening of the energy that is found at the base of your spine. This energy is going to take the form of snake.

Therefore it is called as kundalini; the meaning is ‘coiled up’. Kundalini yoga awakens this snake and sends moving up your spine to the brain which results in uplifting state of delight and attentiveness.

Kundalini yoga deals with basic life energy, prana. Prana is the sub atomic energy, the life force. Kundalini yoga teaches how to use prana as it is the path of the discovery of the source of the prana.

It passes through different chakras or centers of consciousness which are in the human body, once the kundalini is awakened. Awakening the kundalini is not a big deal since for life to exist in us, it must already be active. We do not know what contributed to this awakening but moments of deeper awakening happen in life.

Hatha yoga is an easy and important type of yoga popular in Western countries and United States.

Hatha is made of two words: ‘Ha’ means Sun and ‘tha’ means moon. Yoga means to join or unite. Hatha yoga means union of sun and moon.

It means harmonizing the positive and negative currents in the body.

Hatha yoga is an excellent means of stretching, exercising and freeing so that the body can be healthy, vital, and long lived instrument of the soul and mind.

Hatha yoga prepares our body for the spiritual path via breathing and physical exercises. Hatha yoga is the best to start with if you never tried yoga before.

Hatha yoga mainly concentrates on asanas, dhyana and pranayama. It aims at balancing different energy flows within the human body.

If you are practicing hatha yoga, your mind become clear and you can concentrate well. As your minds become clear, your healthy body enables to meditate easily.

Practice hatha yoga with a calm and meditative mind. Sit quietly and relax your mind for few minutes. Now you can start doing asanas slowly. Don’t overstretch yourself as it may lead to injuries.

Yoga is an integrated means of synchronizing mind, spirit and body and is an essential way of life.

Yoga is an ancient Indian body of knowledge that dates back more than 5000 years ago.

The word “Yoga” came from the Sanskrit word “yuj” which means “to unite or integrate.”

Yoga is an art and takes into consideration your mind, body and soul in reaching divinity. Your body must be purified and strengthened through various practices.

Yoga focuses on harmony and body. The aim of yoga is to strike the balance between mind and body to attain self-enlightenment.

To achieve this, yoga uses breath, movement, relaxation, meditation and posture in order to establish a healthy, balanced and lively approach to life.

Yoga offers various modes of effective physical therapy that can help alleviate painful conditions such as stiffness of neck, improved blood circulation, arthritis, constipation, back and feet, improving respiratory conditions, increasing lung capacity and relieving insomnia.

The basic idea of yoga is to unite the individual or atma soul with universal or paramatma soul. By cleansing your mind and controlling your thought process, you can return to that primitive state when you are nothing but a part of the divine self.