Yoga has been around in the eastern world for centuries, and the classical techniques of yoga
go back to about five thousand years ago. If you are interested in going in for practicing yoga,
you should have an overall idea about the various branches of yoga.
There are six branches of yoga, namely Hatha, Bhakti, Karma, Raja, Tantra and Jnana. Hatha,
which is the most popular branch of yoga, is actually the physical part of yoga or the yoga which
involves postures or asanas. The Hatha yoga is thus basically composed of ‘asanas ‘ are the
physical postures which yoga practitioners have to do, ‘pranayama’ or breathing techniques,
and meditation. Hatha joins the body and soul and make the body healthy, and helps to keep