Yoga is a scientific system of physical and mental practices that originated in India more than three thousand years ago. Its purpose is to help each one of us achieve our highest potential and to experience enduring health and happiness. With Yoga, we can extend our healthy, productive years far beyond the accepted norm and, at the same time, improve the quality of our lives.

Yoga means yoke or union of the body and the mind. In other words, living in the present moment - being present in the here and now without thoughts of the past or anxiety over the future.
A man is born gentle and weak; at his death he is hard and stiff. All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death.
Stiffness is thus a companion of death; flexibility a companion of life....
A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind.
The hard and stiff will be broken; the soft and supple will prevail.
(Tao Te Ching)