| Yoga, the brainchild of the ancient Hindus is a form of | | | | integrating mind, body and spirit; it enhances physical |
| mysticism, whose origin is impossible to trace, dating | | | | and mental health and well-being, even as it helps attain |
| back as it does to thousands of years before | | | | spiritual insight and harmony, a union with the divine. |
| recorded history. One of the six schools of Hindu | | | | A blend of spiritual and physical exercises that |
| philosophy, Maharishi (or Sage) Patanjali, its founding | | | | encourage mental, spiritual and physical fitness, these |
| father lived a full three centuries before Christ. A great | | | | exercises are also known to be effective against |
| philosopher and grammarian, he was also a physician, | | | | anxiety, arthritis, headache, migraine, multiple sclerosis, |
| with a considerable body of medical work attributed to | | | | osteoporosis, pregnancy, rheumatoid arthritis, and more. |
| him, though this work has been lost in the pages of | | | | Yoga's special exercises, breathing and meditation |
| time. Though founded by Patanjali, yet Yoga existed | | | | techniques are renowned for cleansing the body of |
| as a distinct teaching and system of life long before | | | | toxins, improving the muscle tone, as well as, blood |
| him. | | | | circulation. |
| A traditional Indian system of healing the mind and | | | | A way of life, the aim of Patanjali Yoga is to set man |
| body, through a series of mental, spiritual and physical | | | | free from the cage of matter. Mind being the highest |
| exercises, Yoga is designed to yoke or unite or fuse | | | | form of matter, the mind, body, soul union that is the |
| individual consciousness and awareness (atma or the | | | | goal of everyone practicing Yoga, frees them from |
| human soul) with super conscious awareness | | | | the dragnet of Chital or Ahankara (mind or ego), |
| (Paramatma or the Supreme Being), which is, but a | | | | making for a pure being. Practising Yoga does that |
| natural state of mind for both. Ultimately, this yoking | | | | and more! |
| process leads to a realisation of identity, and by | | | | |