Yoga aims to balance the entire person, which means that it combines the physical and mental aspects of a person's health and being. Yoga poses, including the ones you learned in this topic, offer many benefits to your body and mind when practiced regularly with meditation and reflection. As you may have realized, yoga is a practice of not only the body, but also of the mind. It focuses on the balance of the entire person, combining physical and mental practices in order to achieve holistic fitness.