The World Yoga Day, also known as the International Yoga Day, falls on Wednesday, June 21. The theme of this year is "Yoga for Health."
Yoga originated in ancient India around 5,000 years back. Yoga is an amalgam of physical, mental and spiritual practice which helps enhance one's physical as well as mental health along with the self-healing ability.
Practising yoga regularly helps to improve:
Yoga also aids in combating stress causing changes in the genes, a study carried out by the researchers from Psychology at Coventry University in the United Kingdom, with Ivana Buric as the lead researcher, pointed out.
"The purpose of yoga is to create strength, awareness and harmony in both the mind and body,"