Indeed, it is an astonishing fact that a yogic tradition, which is more than five thousand years old, has recently become a popular way of life. Presently, people consider that yoga is a significant means to achieve a healthy as well a positive means to achieve a healthy as well as a positive lifestyle. In fact, the pawer of yoga lies in its simplicity, flexibility and diversity. As a matter of fact, yoga helps in improving our flexibility, lowers our stress level and increases our confidence and finally contributes to a healthier lifestyle on the whole. There are various lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, back pain, migraine and depression which can be prevented and treated up to some extent with the help of certain yogic exercises. Nowadays, obesity has become an enormous as well as fatal health problem. This problem is not only seen in India but is prevalent in the other countries also even in the united states of america one out of three adults and one out of five children and teenagers are facing the problem of obesity. In India, we witness a similar situation. Majority of the people, since childhood fall prey to obesity in most of the countries of the world. In fact in other words, obesity can be defined as the condition when an individual weighs 20 per cent more than the ideal weight an adult with a more than or equal to 30 than the ideal is usually considered to be obese. In case of obesity the body weight of the individual is always more in comparison to height considering the number of health risks associated with obesity, it has been declared a disease it has been observed that obese persons usually fall prey to diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, arthtritis osteoarthritis, flatfoot respiratory problems, varicose veins, liver malfunction, etc