Yoga is one of the most popular physical exercises carried out by most people nowadays. Yoga includes exercises carried out to help an individual mentally as well as physically in the Hindu faith. Yoga involves a person carrying out physical exercises as well as meditation. Therefore it creates healing in the mind and the body as a whole. By using meditation, yoga provides spiritual enlightenment and tranquility to the individual.

Yoga has many advantages for the person mentally and physically and you may be asking yourself, "why is doing yoga good for those with joint problems?" Well. yoga is very essential especially to people with joint pains in the following ways.

Yoga is one way for a person to heal the various joint that are in pain.There are certain movements in the exercises involved when doing yoga. These help you to be flexible as well as to balance and stretch the body in a gradual process. In addition to the above, instead of just going to a physician to help you with the joint pains, this could be one of the more effective and natural way to get rid of them as well as being a way of life for you. Secondly yoga will start to lubricate stiff joints. It induces the body to gently secrete fluids that will continuously lubricate joints for example giving lubrication to the knee and shoulder joints alike.

According to a few researchers worldwide, who studied on the health of a person, healing of a person starts with the mind of that person himself/ herself. Yoga is one of those type of exercise that trains not only the body but the mind as well. As such, the best way of healing joint pains is not only by meditating but focusing it on healing the joint problem area. There are many people that have failed to heal because their minds can only think focus on life from a negative aspect and not believe in the miracle of the mind. Yoga is one of the ways used for training the mind to be positive everyday come what may.