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How is Yoga relevant in modern times?

Usually one thinks of yoga, only when one wants to cut flab or is in excruciating pain and feels yoga holds the key to all man-made problems. Yogi Ashwini of Delhi-based Dhyan Foundation, who was in the city, recently said that there is no age to start yoga. “Yoga can be practised by one and all. Yoga, simply put, is a union in, and union with, all spheres of life. Yoga helps unlock the phenomenal potential that lies hidden in a being,” Yogi Ashwini says. The yoga guru feels that yoga is an experience and not a subject of the intellect. “Yoga works on all aspects of a person — physical, vital, mental, financial, emotional, psychic and spiritual. Only when all the aspects are in a state of balance does a human being experience liberation, perfect harmony. The aim of yoga is the awakening of the Kundalini for liberation from bondages,” he adds. On the specific yogasanas that men, women and children could practice, the Yogi says that people from 18 to 80 can practice a...