First, if you are a health nut and really want to get into shape, you will want to join one of New York's many gyms and pilates clubs. If you want to get in shape but are shy about exercising in front of other people, then you may want to consider a personal trainer or fitness coach to come into your home. These people are well qualified and trained in order to help you to meet your goals. Personal trainers and fitness coaches will motivate you to get in shape. They will show you the right exercises to work on in order to complete your goals, and they can offers advice about the right foods to eat.

There's nothing better than having your own personal trainer, but personal trainers can get expensive. Not only that, but you will have to have a lot of gym equipment available to you in your own home. If you do not have room for fitness equipment, you may want to meet with a personal trainer at a gym. This is an easier to way to work out without taking up all that space in your home, but you will run into other people in the gym.

Another way to stay fit in New York is to do yoga. New York is also known as a walking city because everything you need is accessible to you by walking down the street, so there is that option as well. You can take advantage of this by walking wherever you go within the city. And if you feel like you need to jog or run, find the nearest park to your home, walk to it, do your running, then walk back home. This will give you a built in system in order to warm up and cool down your muscles. It is also great exercise if you have a dog. Dogs in the city need exercise too, and running with their owners is always a great way for them, as well as their owners, to get into shape.

Yoga, the oldest way of spiritual practice is one of the six schools in Hindu philosophy. Towards the end of twentieth century, yoga teachers moved to the West and travelers from the West to India led to the flourishing of Yoga in western countries. In the West, yoga gives stress on different postures associated with it. The Bhagavad Geetha, The Upanishads, The Yoga Sutras of Patajali, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Yoga Rahasya and many other Hindu texts holds writings based on Yoga.

Classification: Karma yoga- Yoga of action Jnana Yoga- Yoga of wisdom Bhakti Yoga-Yoga of devotion Raja Yoga- Yoga of meditation Yoga, the science of liberation helps its disciples to reach the extreme point of liberation. Since Yoga has a basic therapeutic healing power, is practiced together with other medications. Ashtanga Yoga and Ayurveda is simply mixed in the practice of Yoga.

Yoga lay emphasis on the body, mind and the emotional area of a person. At the final stage the Yogi (one who practice Yoga) reaches the ‘moksha’ stage where there is no interruption of thoughts occurs. Concentration and meditation are indivisible parts of Yoga that infills the meditator with the extreme pleasures of peace and joy.