It has been estimated that yoga is not just an exercise in every sense of the term, but rather a means to enlightenment. 

 

According to yogis, yoga allows an individual to understand that and therefore makes him a lit.

Yoga can not be seen simply as a form of exercise because it is intimately linked with the spiritual and meditation. 

 

 

 

 

According to historians, during the Stone Age and later in the Vedic age, the yogis used the practice of yoga to teach people how to live a life full of harmony.

 

Yoga has been introduced in the Western world, much later in the 19th century, and although initially Yoga is only studied in the framework of Eastern philosophy, it quickly  became part of a movement.

 

Swami Sivananda (grand master yogi) has played an important role in popularizing Yoga in the West and it was he who gave the five principles of yoga which

 

 

 

Pranayama : breathing right, 

 

 

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