YOGA: THE NEED OF HOUR
YOGA is the need of the hour!! Due to lockdown, work from home, and attending everything online is causing stress and mental issues for everyone. Yoga is the need of the hour to reduce mental stress for the time being. Not only reducing mental stress but also there are many other benefits. Yoga is one of the ancient innovations of India. It has been used for various purposes like yoga as exercise and yoga as therapy. Yoga as exercise is a physical activity having postures and followed by sequences also accompanied by breathing exercises. It has been evolving from centuries and spread over all parts of the world. Yoga as therapy is the use of yoga of exercise in a gentle way. It involves practices like meditation, imagery, music, and Pranayama. According to medieval authors of Yoga every asana will bring a health benefit. For example – Shavasana will take away fatigue and relaxes the mind. The branch of sports medicine uses yoga asanas as active stretches to protect mu...