Dive into Yoga Unveiling Its Transformative Health Benefits and Exploring the Path to Discovering the True Self

<p>Practitioners and their search for the true self. A thousand years before the birth of Christ and for</p><p>five subsequent centuries it has been theorized that yoga flourished in cities known today as</p><p>India and Pakistan (Chaline 2001). People practiced yoga to become closer to God. Yoga</p><p>literally means to 'yoke' or to be in union (Satchidananda 1990). According to the Yoga Sutras</p><p>of Patanjali yoga is the science of the mind (Satchidananda 1990 p. xi). Richard Freeman a</p><p>student and teacher of yoga for 38 years in an interview with Bonnie Horrigan (2004) describes</p><p>yoga as a meditative discipline and a way of gaining insight into the nature of the mind and</p><p>reality. He believes that yoga is ultimately freedom or liberation and its benefit is much more</p><p>than simply good health (p. 65). According to Freeman yoga is the undoing of the harm people</p><p>do to their bodies as a result of modern living. He states that we often hold the body or posture</p><p>the body based on past experiences (p. 66). Yoga can assist in reversing this postural</p><p>conditioning.</p>