With few days left, thousands are rushing with preparations for special events to celebrate the second International Day of Yoga on June 21. While the celebration may take place once a year, it would be worthwhile to practice yoga daily and change your lifestyle with this invaluable gift of India&’s ancient tradition to beat the stress of today’s fast-paced modern life. Daily yoga practice can help release negativity, maintain vital energy and bring in the much needed positive change in life. 

Just breathe easy and quiet the mind. Let go of stress. Meditate in style, balance the chakras and keep the mind and body beautiful. Help yourself to heaps of this ancient spiritual practice of yoga to love your body. With the passing of time and the coming together of different cultures, the spiritual discipline has evolved to take various forms. Some popular forms of yoga practices these days are: 

Acro yoga: It combines yoga and acrobatics.  This form of wisdom yoga is done with a partner. It is a yoga good for self-growth and discovering your partner better in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. 

Hatha Yoga: Ashtanga, Vinyasa, Iyengar and Power yoga come under Hatha yoga, which practice is of different postures. Most forms of yoga in the West are classified as Hatha Yoga. Hatha practices are designed to align and calm your body, mind and soul. 

Ashtanga Yoga: It involves brisk movement. It synchronizes breath and movement to produce an internal heat to purify the body. This form of yoga helps in building core strength and toning the body. 

Hot Yoga: It is practiced in a heated room under temperatures ranging from 85 degrees to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. It helps sweat out toxins from the body and increase strength and flexibility. This yoga includes Bikram Yoga, Forrest Yoga, Baptise Yoga and Core Power Yoga. 

Jivamukti yoga: It involves meditation, chanting, pranayam, philosophy and music into a vivaciously flowing asana. 

Iyengar Yoga: It increases strength, flexibility, stability and awareness. Postures are practiced for long periods. They are often modified with props. Close attention is paid in the alignment of each pose. 

Kundalini Yoga: It involves kinetic breathing techniques, meditation, movement and chanting of mantras. It stimulates the whole being and increase consciousness. It help in digestion and strengthen will power and give up bad habits like smoking or drinking. 

Power Yoga: It is practiced to synchronize breath with the body movement. This yoga helps in building internal power, heat, stamina and flexibility, and reduces stress. 

Restorative Yoga : This yoga includes restorative poses of light twists, seating forward folds and gentle back bends supported by props. It helps in relaxing, losing weight, controlling high blood pressure, getting better sleep and digestion. 

Prenatal Yoga: It is a practice designed for pregnant women. It makes moms-to-be physically and emotionally strong. It involves breathing,  stamina, restorative  and pelvic floor work poses. 

SUP Yoga: SUP Yoga stands for “Stand Up Paddle board” Yoga. One has to stand on one foot and breathe. 

Vinyasa Yoga:  Ashtanga, Jivamukti, Power, Baptise Yoga and prana flow come under Vinyasa Yoga. It energizes your body, boosts your mood and has many benefits for the heart. 

Tantra Yoga: This ancient practice is a combination of asana, mantra, mudra, bandha (energy lock) and chakra (energy center). It helps to build strength, clarity, confidence, contentment and bliss in daily life. 

Yin Yoga: This practice helps to sit more comfortably for longer time during meditation sessions. It involves stretching of connective tissue around the joints (mainly the knees,pelvis and spine). It is a passive practice, that comprehend variations of seated and supine postures held for three to five minutes. This yoga helps in fertility and conception. It soothes painful stiff knees and aching back. 

Yoga Hybrids: It involves dance or acrobatic moves.  Coupling different form of yoga tone your body and lift your spirit. 

Yoga Therapy: This yoga technique applies to heal physical injury or pain or mental or emotional stress or trauma. Yoga therapy, Viniyoga, Integrative Yoga Therapy, Phoenix Rising Yoga all can help you heal.