What is the Relevance of Yoga Today?

Physical and mental cleansing and strengthening is one of yoga’s most important achievements. What makes it so powerful and effective is the fact that it works on the holistic principles of harmony and unification. According to medical scientists, yoga therapy is successful because of the balance created in the nervous and endocrine systems which directly influences all the other systems and organs of the body.

For most people today, yoga was simply a means of maintaining health and well-being in an increasingly stressful society. Asana do remove the physical discomfort accumulated during a day at the office sitting in a chair, hunched over a desk. Relaxation techniques help to maximize the effectiveness of ever-diminishing time off.

Also yoga provides a means for people to find their own way of connecting with their true selves. In this respect, yoga is far from simply being physical exercises. Therefore yoga does not mean twisting, standing your head or all of those impossible postures and also changing and giving up some of your normal ways of living. Non-vegetarians need not give up their food habits just because they have taken to yoga. Most people just want all of the stuff the ego like, a firm body and ways to show off for impressing people. But the real aim of yoga is an aid to establishing a new perception of what is real, what is necessary, and how to become established in a way of life which embraces both inner and outer realities. For attaining this, you need not give up any of your normal ways of living or doing those impossible postures.