It helps you to develop awareness and control of your body. At a more refined level, yoga practice helps to develop control over mental and emotional states.
Most people taking up yoga do so in order to strengthen their bodies or to find a means of relaxing.
Many find relief through yoga for backache, stiff joints or tension. YOUR BODY usually only achieves a very limited range of motion in everyday activity. This results in a loss of mobility - if you do not use the flexibility in your muscles and joints you will lose that flexibility. Yoga stretches and exercises the body to its full potential, naturally promoting the range of motion and developing muscle strength. Yoga works on both levels dealing simultaneously with stiffness, aches and pains and tension.