The Science Behind Yoga 

I came to yoga with horrible back pain over 3 years ago(caused by insane level of stress) and now i am certified instructor myself :) Yoga has changed my life! Namaste!

For me yoga is like a factory reset button. Whenever some thing goes wrong with my body I simply turn to yoga.

Yoga saved my life- pure & simple. I’ve been practicing for 50 years. It’s the best thing ever!

I suffered migraines and head aches for years.Twenty years ago I embarked on the yoga journey I have not a headache since 2001.Now at 80 am still practicing yoga almost daily.

A good documentary.. I am an alcoholic (65 years old) I am now letting go of my thanks to yoga & vipassana meditation. I have now committed to journey by bicycle to Rikishi India via, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmawr, Vietnam, Laos,China, Malaysia and to India.... A big undertaking for a 65 yearold who's healthy, never mind a drunk... Yoga & vipassana meditation have/are making it possible....👍👣🚲 Oh, a raw food vegetarian diet... Lastly, I am down to one small beer a day... Yoga and meditation is a great path to 🚲&👣 Peace to all who read this..

One thing I've noticed about almost all yoga enthusiasts is they speak very calmly and deliberately. They're never in a rush. I'll be doing my first session this week.

Whenever I feel really sad, and I'm crying, with thoughts of hurting myself I immediately start doing yoga.

I've been on Yoga with Adriene's daily schedule for a couple months now, and just recently started doing it outside. Feeling the warmth of the sunshine and breathing in the fresh air adds a lot to the experience too!

Just done my first yoga session since having emergency spinal surgery and being diagnosed with a rare spinal Condition. I AM SO PROUD I GOT TO A POINT WHERE I COULD PHYSICALLY COMPLETE A 20 MINUTE SESSION!! I am so glad I did it.....I will never go a day without doing yoga!

I have undergone a total hip replacement surgery at 18. I started doing yoga after that, I gained back my mobility, adduction, rotation, many other limitations that doctors thought I will never overcome! Hari OM

Came across a translation of Ancient Hindu Yoga!! It was amazing...I am amazed by how amazing and scientific Hinduism and its ancient practices are.

I am glad that the ancient wisdom of INDIA is being adapted all over the world now..

Ever since a lockdown is declared in India I've been practicing yoga for about 45min every single day without a break. It's started impacting me in a very positive way which I experienced not only physically but also mentally .Though I'm working from home due to the corona pandemic but I feel more focused and productive at work, I feel more energetic and lively, I speak to my parents more often and I spend time with myself. I'm into a bit stressful profession and yoga really helps me to stay calm. Besides yoga I also try to meditate for about 15min but unable to be regular at it. I feel my perspective towards life and nature is slowly changing. Yoga is a way of life indeed. 🙏🇮🇳

Being Indian , I'm really happy to see foreigners adopting yoga as lifestyle. This is the spirituality that our ancestors kept as secret and now it's out open for all. Please come to Ganga once in your lifetime and experience her divinity . Thank you so so so much for posting this video . Namaste 🙏💗

William ... 44yrs sober with 12Step and this Yoga and MBSR is giving me a whole new life at 83.

I am truck driver sitting most of the time i love lifting weight but with my job I can’t continually go to gym so yoga is better then nothing I feel my joints and it help me mentally/sleeping better waking up with good positive energy

I'm a relative beginner at Yoga having come to practice daily for the last 5 weeks. I came to practice because of terrible pain in my hips and hamstrings, to the extent where walking up stairs or hills was extremely painful, and the pain was waking me up at night. Pain medication and conventional physiotherapy had little effect and I was worried about long term pain medication use. I couldn't even put my socks on without pain. Eventually I hired a yoga teacher to come to my house and she recommended Yoga with Adriene for practicing between our sessions. After just 2 weeks I began to notice some serious benefits. I am doing an average of a 15-20 minute practice every morning. After 5 weeks, I have noticed the following changes: Every muscle in my body, from head to toe, has gained strength and flexibility. I have significant reduction in pain to the extent where I haven't used medication for 3 weeks. I can look over my shoulder without pain and can put my socks on standing up (so my balance is improving too, I've NEVER been able to do that!). Yesterday was a great day because I skipped up the stairs without thinking, then burst out crying with happiness because I can't remember the last time I was able to do that! My hamstrings are still tight and I know it's going to take time for them to feel completely normal, but every day I notice little things that would have caused me pain before, no longer do. My posture and silhouette are both improved (being 50, my figure was getting a little saggy and my posture was ALWAYS poor). But the effects are mental as well as physical... I seem to be organically making better choices when it comes to food, and I'm drinking more water too. I use the breathing to calm and ground me when I'm feeling stressed, I am just happier all over because of the reduction in pain and I feel proud of my achievement of actually showing up at my mat every morning. I feel a huge shift in my psyche from being worried and stressed about a future filled with pain, to feeling younger and actually excited about my life. I never would have believed these changes would be possible after such a short amount of time so if you're reading this, what do you have to lose by giving it a go? I'm now on a mission to tell anyone who will listen.... give Yoga a try. My yoga teacher says if you do Yoga once a week, it will change your mind. Do it twice a week, it will change your body. Do it every day, and it will change your life. Love and light to all

I'm a 26 year old Hispanic male. I use to believe things such as yoga and biking where a typical White/hipster activity wh couldnt handle stress. Boy was I wrong. I finally came to a tipping point at 24 years old when I was working long hours and trying to manage a new family. Being so young the stress finally hit me hard and I began having anxiety and starting to go into depression. I saw many doctors but none really help me completely and my distrust in medications for depression lead me to find the joy of being out doors as a cyclist and the stress reliever of yoga. I couldnt believe what a change this has done for me and has opened my mind to understand others and their differences.

I started yoga in the spring 2018 after my 50 birthday. I was stressed and ill 🤧 all the time. My job was on the line.. Now after months still doing my wonderful yoga every day, my body and health is improving. I’m not ill anymore, my life learning leader is gone and I’m just a better person in body, mental and in spirit. Do yoga and change your life to the better 🧘‍♂️🙏 Love from Denmark ❤️

"Ultimately Yoga is about self realisation" 👍👌

I love how she talks about creating space in the body and space in the mind.

Who else has this video keep popping up after watching a yoga session vid

Having practiced yoga since October of 2019, I fell off during the beginning of quarantine. For the last six weeks however, I have practiced every day with few exceptions. Needless to say life is much better when I am practicing yoga. I look and feel great, my anxiety is under control, and I look forward to practicing each day. Take care of yourself and take care of each other.

Just started a simple yoga program every morning (20 minutes) to help manage the effects of trauma. There is something in this !!! I feel very different afterwards...

I was a chain smoker. Thanks to Yoga,. I stopped completely. At 62, I am able to do Hasthasana!

I love yoga with all my heart, I'm so grateful that it is part of my life. I don't need any scientific proof to believe in its benefits, I'm only watching this because it's a good way for sceptical people to get into this wonderful practice, thank you for this. Namaste!

Well, I started doing yoga every day during the quarantine, and it changed my reaction to the lockdown. Not only do I feel physically healthier, but doing yoga helped me not feel stressed and depressed while quarantining alone. Instead, I looked forward to my yoga/meditation/kirtan practice every day and felt more creative and energetic after. It made a huge difference.

Problem is that awareness of videos like these don't have 4 billion views.

Yes that's very true as I was feeling a little depressed and I started going to a yoga class and it's lifted the depression away I'm feeling happy again 😊

Just after every time I do yoga, my next hard workout becomes easy and effortless,it's Iike some sort of superpower.

Can you just imagine how much developed the INDIAN SUBCONTINENT was, more than thousands of years ago in the fields of inner engineering, spirituality, science and medicines- that they developed such relaxing and curing body postures and mind calming Sanskrit mantras that are a key to the cure of almost every problem surrounding people - and now after so many thousands of years finally the people of the rest of the world are coming to know about the benefits of Yoga. But still many of the aspects of Yoga remain lost in time - so to have a complete understanding about all the aspects of Yoga, one needs to read all the ancient scriptures of India, basically all the VEDAS. There are many people who are practicing yoga and are getting benifitted from yoga- but they don't know that Yoga originated thousands of years before in INDIA and they even criticise India because they have many misconceptions about India. The main thing that I want to say is that if you are learning and benifitting from something- you should also appriciate and have a detailed conception about its origin, because if you don't know where you came from how will you appriciate where you are going. I hope people reading this comment will understand the benefit of knowing this. However, I feel proud and indeed very glad that the ANCIENT Wisdom of INDIA is being practised and being adopted by people all over the world now.

Thanks for sharing this. I think so many people are missing the vital point when it comes to Yoga . Most people thing it as if it is only the Asanas. However in truth Yoga is much more than that. Patanjali describes 8 limbs in the Yoga Sutras and Asana is just one limb of it. All the limbs actually lead one to have access to the universal mind and gives one the ability communicate with it and learn. Thats where Samyama is needed and as everyone that actually read the Yoga Sutras will know Patanjali doesn't share more than couple sentences about it. I know only one system online ( there may be more that I am not aware of ) that actually helps someone regardless on their level to reach to that communication. It is an online school called "Drukama" . You can check their videos on RU-vid or Fbook if interested. Blessings and once again thank you for the share !

I have been doing yoga on and off over the years and lately I’ve gone back to the practice and been doing it everyday, my allergic rhinitis is easing off, back and other bodily pains are relieved. Aside from those, I feel happier and less stressed. So it really makes a difference.

Honestly, I used to be skeptical of yoga despite being an Indian as I did not know about the science behind it. In contrast, people around the world are appreciating the benefits associated from it. Its about time I enrolled in a yoga class!

I love yoga and Pilates. I always left class feeling on top of the world. Less depressed too. I find that if I get anxiety I practice the breathing wherever I am and it’s a godsend. This is such a positive experience. 🇨🇦❤️

I live with a friend who’s on his 50s and he mentioned that he gets anxiety time to time.. few months ago he called me late at night to take him to the hospital because his blood pressure was high.. I practice yoga very often ( I want to become yoga teacher) so I told my friend to calm down and start breathing, but he insisted to go to the hospital. We were almost 5 hours at the ER. When we arrived home I told him that we will do a small routine easy yoga, my friend never practiced yoga before. Later that day after our meal we were talking and yoga came out on the subject and I told him “ok, we will do a meditation class, but check your blood pressure first” his blood pressure was 160/95, we started meditating. After 20 minutes I asked him to check his blood pressure, it went down to 125/74, he was impressed.. I suffer of hypertension and I feel the difference after my yoga sequences, I still take my medication, but yoga is the greatest medicine 🙏🏻💞

I was meant to watch this exact video at this exact moment in my life 🙏🏻💕

Just amazing what eastern origns can make a difference in the human brain that science found 3000 years later🙏🧘‍♀️

I have anxiety But after I started to do yoga at least two times a week, I have not had any anxiety!

Transform your life with yoga. Best thing you can gift to yourself 💖

I have done yoga 4 times in the last 15 days completely fell in love with it. Im totally lighter on my feet and feel awesome.

I’ve always known yoga changed me for the better. I’m so grateful for yoga.🙏❤️☀️

I used to work as a psychiatric nurse.it was all about medications and medications.certainly occupational therapy was doing a great work.rarely somebody would pop in for a half hour taichi.Hardly attended.Psychiatrists mostly under the hubris of arrogant rational cerebral shadows. Yet there is a whole lot of very natural primordial approaches strategies such as yoga taichi mindfulness silence cultivation Alexander techniques etc that are really helpful and useful beneficial and Therapeutic.It is important to teach us our own Minds and Bodies to get in touch with ourselves to know ourselves.i have been doing yoga since 2014 and it's like putting my soul and body in a test tube and examining it and discovering it.Mental Health services ought to invest meaningfully into this body mind synergy for the benefits of the patients.

Yoga is very misinterpreted.. Yoga is originally known as "Astanga Yoga" ..means, there are 8 limbs of yoga. Out of those 8 limbs, one is upayoga , or the physical yoga that is so popular now. But the aim of Yoga , as defined by patanjali , " is the complete cessation of mind "... The exercises are just the beginning part ..it's the 3rd level among the 8 levels.. Dharana ( effort) , Dhyana ( no effort) , and ultimately, samadhi ( cessation of mind) is the aim of yoga .

The beauty in yoga is that of a forever-blooming flower

I've been practicing it for a short time, 101 level and I already feel the physical and mental benefits.

Wow amazing video. I am a yoga instructor certified by VaYU (World's first yoga university outside India). I'm sure a lot of thought and research must have gone into making this video. I'll definitely recommend this video to my students.

I been having back pain and should the past few months. My anxiety and stress level increase even with a simple task. But when I started yoga all this pain is gone! I don't have to go get a massage which is expensive. Now I can help myself without having to spend. Not bad isn't it?

I started Baptiste power yoga about a year ago. I have started practicing regularly (3-4 hours a week). I am hoping to increase that time. It is drastically changing my mind and my body is changing too. I am so happy that this came into my life.

loved this. I was so stressed earlier, did some yoga for twenty minutes and felt like i'd woken up on a new day, so much lighter.

The greatest gift to mankind by the ANCIENT INDIANS

i m doing suryanamaskar regularly from last 6 months..its awesome,really changed my body and mind..

The problem is, people are associating Asanas as Yoga(Which is a part of the science). But, Yoga is not only the Asanas, but it is also a much deeper philosophy, which connects you to your inner self, simply said makes you introvert. Lets you ponder on what is actually causing the pain(physical, mental, psychological etc), and then the healing starts. Sadly, people only know dynamic Yoga of Sri Iyengar (not offending) but not much people know about gems like Kaivalyadhama, where Scientific Research is done on Yoga. I would also like to mention that I've attended a lecture by Mr. Satbir Khalsa and he is a brilliant man! Hope to learn more from such stalwarts.

I can really feel the difference after practicing yoga and meditation for just two weeks. I have no more back pain, feel more calm and conscious in each situation. My nose no longer bleeds with fluids in cold weather. It is amazing!

Har har mahadev "adiyogi" 😍🙏🙏🙏

Everyone in the world ought to watch this at least once in their lifetime.

Thanks for this. Yoga really has helped me regarding my usual back pain. This is nowadays gone.

I have had anxiety and a lack of emotional resilience for years... we can blame our life changes but it was fundamentally my way of coping that needed adjustment. I have been an intense exerciser for years and while this keeps me strong and healthy, it doesn't work as well as yoga when you're having a 'moment'. The practice of yoga itself concentrates on patience (holding the poses and working on becoming more flexible), emotional resilience (staying in the pose when you want to come out of it) and breathing which isa mechanism that really does work... you MUST have faith in the breathe, its work is impressive!!!!!!!

I’ve been a psychotherapist and a yogi for over four decades. Just now am I truly integrating all of this knowledge on a cellular, conscious lèvel. It’s cumulative. Take it slow, start where you are. This is a deep, profound and wonderfully inclusive, healing practice.

Proud to be an Indian sanatani 😍

This is a powerful documentary! Thank you for presenting this information to the public.

Yoga gives excellent health, become stress free, joyous feel always, makes us become inclusive and loving

I'm on my 2nd week in yoga and I can tell the difference in my mind body and spirit. Bless all.

WE WILL BE ETERNALLY DEBTED TO GREAT MAHARISHIS FOR GIVING YOGA. CONGRATULATIONS LAURA FOR THIS WONDERUL VIDEO ON YOGA.

“Observation of the flow of thought...that leads to increase in mindfulness that changes behavior in a very positive way” 🙏🏻

So wonderful to see my wonderful teacher on here, Simon Borg Olivier!

I started doing yoga in the fifth grade of primary school and now it's been six years, and yoga has become an integral part of my routine

I used to suffer constant head aches and migraine attacks.In 2003 I embarked on the yoga journey and have not had a headache since.

Wow, great documentary. The benefits of yoga are endless! Keep inspiring :) And Rishikesh, what an amazing place. It's where I completed my yoga teacher training and I dream to go back one day!

Videos like these are so important. Thank you for posting Laura.

🧘‍♂️Yoga changed me life after 50days post coma, trauma a lot of reabilthations and fracture too. I found yoga in meditation retrat, after I did more than 25. I cannot live without, I am yoga teacher and practictioner sice 2009, me bike accident was at 1996. Yes this is me story. 🙏 NAMASTE Adriano 🇮🇹

I am proud of my India

Awesome video! I'm gonna start my Yoga practice from today!

Dear Laura or Whom it may concern-I'm very, very, very Overwhelmed to have come across this very Valuable Documentary! I would like to take this Opportunity to Thank you for taking the Time to put this together. I have been doing HATHA YOGA since I was 5 from my uncle that now he is 107....presently, I live in the Eternal City of Rome-Italy. I'm retired now....but I do teach it in one of the Universities and from home. Sometimes, many people don't have the time for nothing...but I would like to really Thank You for the bottom of my heart for All the Efforts that you guys have put together, because really YOGA is more than a Science if done Correctly! Endeless Benefits. If there is anything I could do to help out...let me know...NAMASTE!

Heartwarming to know that yoga asanas are practiced by millions all over the world. It really speaks to the way it makes one feel and the (w)holistic benefits. As an Ayurvedic Practitioner, I am witnessing how the popularity of the asanas eventually led people to Yoga's sister science Ayurveda (the science of self-healing) - what a great trend - developing the understanding and practicing how to care for oneself, building one's immunity, and health of body, mind & spirit. May the yogic sciences continue to spread far and wide. Aum Namah Shivaya ~

yogi has been a gift to me in just 5weeks my depression and stress is all gone. Am now at peace with myself n I sleep better.

this is great, from my perspective if you are involved in any of the energy arts you are dealing with all of the same energies and principles, TaiChi, qigong, yoga, whirling dervish practices and all of the other internal energy sciences

The best one yet!!! Loved the heat mixed in with the breath, core and deeper poses. You are truly a gift, Adriene! Thank you for always making my day brighter! Namaste! ✨❤️

This documentary is wonderful. The version heres is cutted. Full version at: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1fY8OfMl5AU.html

I am a Christian and we release stress and utilize the same principles as yoga in meditation and prayer. I have tried Yoga and it's a great physical workout for me, but the spiritual aspect for me a Christian is in Prayer.

I find it fascinating that we need to prove what has been around for thousands of years and used by millions, even billions of people. Of course Yoga "works." The most important thing is to find the right Yoga for your age, body type, health condition and cultural background. Yoga is the hope for humanity!

One of the best videos I've seen. Beautiful!!!!

A Big thank you for the link driven me to great topics (Yoga, meditation and others practices that I use to)!

Amazing and wonderfully explained. Thank you

Love this! Thank you for sharing! ❤

Amazing! Thank you.

Such a great video to play after a yoga video that ended with a very short shavasana. I laid back and took this all in. Wonderful.

I was morbidly obese due to medications at the start of 2020 and i knew i had to make a change. As a former Judoka i had alot of knowledge of Asian natural medicine, meditation and spirituality, but growing up in an all white very homogenus community i felt alone in regards to it and didnt dare to practice it actively. That was until a few years ago when i started doing it on a regular basis, mainly Yin, hatha and kundalini (kundalini only a few times). Losing Weight meant that i had to endure the many side effects that a low calorie diet causes. I only ate about 300-400 calories a day while i was walking upto 2-3 Miles every single day. It was hell BUT This is where yoga changed the whole game for me and it gave me both a mood boost, self control and a serene inner peace. It made me gain control and neutralize crawings and intense negative emorions. YOGA IS AWESOME ❤️ 😊

Yoga is amazing, connected with my soul❤️

Very well made. Thank you Laura!

Yoga is a life style and a life saver. I seriously don't know what I would do without it.

just started yoga a week ago and it changed my life...

Thank you so much. This video illustrates so well how this has saved my life.

Very informative. Thank you very much for the beneficial learnings of your documentary!!!

i've been doing yoga for 4 years and this is very relaxing. i am an architecture student and i was doing research for my new project competition which is about 'locked in a house in quarantine, what do you do to spend a day' and i thougt the best way spend time is doing yoga and finding your own depth.

Great presentation compiled Laura....God bless!

That was a great lot of information, delivered in grace

Very informative documentary, thanks for sharing!

thank you, Im going to watch the full film!

Beautiful Hinduism, Eternal Religion !