Given my interest in endurance challenges, I suppose it was inevitable that I would look for a way to test my limits with yoga.

With the ever-growing amount of scientific studies conducted in the field of yoga research, it's no surprise that we're starting to get answers to the question: Why, exactly, does yoga work?

If you think you won't enjoy it, or that it's not a workout, or that you won't get toned, or if you think yoga is for freaks, I want to leave you with five reasons: Why yoga?

"My intent in practicing yoga is to help people live either truth so they can love their lives -- whatever phase they are in."

The whole point of yoga is to get us to release our egos. And yet, it appears that some of the young teachers have such inflated egos that I'm uncertain even yoga will remedy their afflictions in just one lifetime.