Increasing rates of psychosocial disturbances give rise to increased risks and
vulnerability for a wide variety of stress-related chronic pain and other illness.
Relaxation exercises aim at reducing stress and thereby help prevent these unwanted outcomes. One
of the widely used relaxation practice are yoga and yogic breathing exercises.
Yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual practice or discipline that aims to transform body and
mind. The term yoga is derived from the literal meaning of "yoking together" a span of
horses or oxen but came to be applied to the "yoking" of mind and
body.