Yoga benefits are proven scientifically - Lesson 2

In the first part of my e-course on Yoga for beginners I told you how Yoga affects your physical body. In my previous posts, I also pointed out that Yoga (or practising Yoga) has very little to do with religion.

Naturally, it can be religious thing as well, if you want it to be, but by itself Yoga is not religious in a way of focusing on belief or faith. In other words: You do not have to believe or have faith in anything particular to learn, practise and benefit from Yoga.

Therefore, I would say that Yoga is more of a science than anything else simply because it is understood, learnt and practised in term of the scientific methods in many countries and places around the world. Just take India for example. They refer to and approach Yoga as a science.

Just the same as in other scientific disciplines, Yogic science builds its principles based on causes and effects, which means that observations and results of Yoga are produced objectively. For a yogic master to be credible, one needs to be highly educated in many sciences like physics or biological sciences for instance.

Perhaps you are wondering why am I talking about science here, when this post is titles as: Why is practising Yoga beneficial for you? Well, this is simply because when it comes to science, results can be tested objectively.

That means that positive benefits of Yoga, which I was talking about in my previous posts, are tested in objective way. Noone has made up the results or effects of Yoga. They were empirically proven in a scientific way!

It is your right to ask yourself questions like: Why should you even bother to learn and then practice Yoga in the first place? before you actually decide to experience it. And because of that, I wanted to give you an anwser to that, so you can see that the positive results of Yoga are real thing.