Yoga contains three parts: postures (asana), breathing (pranayama) and meditation. Yoga practitioners achieve tranquility of the mind and create a sense of well-being, feelings of self-confidence and increased attentiveness, lowered irritability. The act of practicing yoga and meditation inhibits the areas responsible for fear, aggressiveness, and rage, and stimulates the reward centers of the forebrain, which can lead to a state of lower anxiety by decreasing heart rate, blood pressure, heart rate and cardiac output. Evidence says that when yoga is a practice that is adhered to on a regular basis, it is an effective intervention to improve cardiorespiratory fitness, physical functioning and anxious behaviors in children, adolescents, and adults alike.

Yoga is a multitasking modality that simultaneously treats physical impairments as well as psychosocial issues like stress, anxiety or hyperactivity.