It enjoys much popularity. This is specially so since Asanas and Pranayamas have proved beneficial in promoting total health and mental peace as also in developing personality.
Yoga is also a therapy for many diseases and disorders.
People are increasingly being convinced that Yoga makes for good health, contentment and happiness in the present-day stressful life. Traditionally, however, the knowledge of Yoga was kept secret and limited to a few. Also, Yoga had certain hidden sides to it, because of which there are many misconceptions about it even now. In this situation, even while more and more people want to practise Yoga, very few people have truly reaped benefits from it. Important reasons for this are that trained Yoga teachers are in short supply, modern teaching techniques for imparting Yogic knowledge are not used widely enough and simple scientific books on Yoga are rare.