10 Amazing Facts about Yoga

Source: thegoodbody.com

1. Yoga is over 5000 years old!
2. Male yoga practitioners are known as ‘yogis’, female practitioners are known as ‘yoginis’
3. There are more than 100 styles of yoga
4. The word yoga comes from the Sanskit language and means ‘union’
5. The first yoga mat was created in 1982 by Angela Farmer who used carpet underlay to create a sticky surface while teaching yoga
6. Yoga boosts your immune system – According to a recent Norwegian study, which looked at the health benefits of yoga in relation to the immune system, findings showed that practicing yoga caused molecular changes that encouraged the circulation of immune cells
7. Regular yoga can help ease stress, depression and anxiety
8. Yoga has 84 basic poses
9. George Harrison from the Beatles was a famous yogi
10. Prisoners in India can reduce their sentence by getting top marks in a yoga test