Healthy life can be considered as a by-product of practicing yoga techniques. Yoga practitioners are physically and mentally healthier and have better coping skills to stressors than the normal population.
All yoga practices help gain the health of the five kosas, and thereby, purify the awareness at all these levels. Yet, the specific yoga practices, mentioned below, help respective kosas in the most pronounced and predominant way. (Yoga & Mental Health and beyond, Chap IXa,78)
- Asana help us gain the health of our gross body plane, i.e. Annamaya Kosa.
- Pranayama and sat kriyas look after the health of our functional body, termed as Pranamaya Kosa.
- Pratyahara takes care of our emotional body known as Manomaya Kosa.
- Dharana and Dhyana cover the body of intellect/wisdom, referred to as Vijnanamaya Kosa.
- Samadhi takes care of our body of bliss, called as Ananadamaya Kosa.