"No matter what age or shape you're in, you can do yoga," says Julie McCall. Julie, a grandmother, explains that she began yoga after her doctor suggested it might help relieve pain from serious scoliosis.

Yoga is like coffee—stimulating, but you can't just say you want some: You can order it fast, slow, hard, easy, with in-your-face meditation or with nary a word of Sanskrit. There are a half-dozen or more major forms, and while that provides the benefit of choice and change, it also increases the chance of getting mismatched with a particular style or teacher.

With less than 27 percent of U.S. employees in a recent Gallup poll viewing themselves as "truly engaged" at work, a work-life satisfaction guru says yoga and other stress-busters could prevent "national crisis."

Hundreds of people gathered in Dearborn, MI Sunday for the third annual "Yoga for Peace," which aims to affect world peace through the power of meditation.

Yogadownload.com, an online virtual yoga studio, has launched "Yoga for Peace," an initiative to help relieve some of the stress on U.S. troops and peace workers in Iraq and other war torn areas of the world.

Dozens of inmates at three correctional facilities are taking classes in the ancient Indian physical and spiritual practice and finding it helps them cope with prison life.

Joann Belfiore used to relieve her work stress with a handful of chocolate. "Now I do a yoga routine every morning," she says. "I find it will calm me down at work. When I'm having a stressful day, I'll go into the bathroom and do some breathing exercises."

Bus loads of people travelled from Edinburgh and other parts of the UK to Glasgow to attend yoga expert Baba Ramdev's six-day camp there that began early on Thursday.

Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev has been giving yoga lessons to lawmakers in London in a bid to make them more energetic and creative.

Scientists have found the first proof that yoga can ease the pain of premenstrual tension. Tests on women with the pre-period syndrome have found the ancient Indian art form can relieve their psychological and physical symptoms.