Yoga becomes easier if you give it time and embrace the ancient practice

Back to basics: Yoga is said to bring benefits and provide relief to the body and mind. - Lezlie Sterling/Sacramento Bee/MCT)

YOGA has successfully established itself as a fashionable four-letter word. Most people I know have practised a version or versions of this ancient discipline. At the very least, some tried it once before giving up.

I don’t know much about yoga nor have I fully understood the relief it is said to bring to the body and mind, but the yoga madness did make me sign up for my first class about 10 years ago.