Yoga is known to enhance flexibility, strength and coordination. Apart from enhancing muscle flexibility, strength yoga can also help with weight loss and improve body posture. Regular Yoga practice has also been associated with optimizing body functions like respiration, heart rate, lowering of blood pressure, keeping cardiovascular health problems at bay and more. Today childhood obesity has become a potent problem on account of the increase in consumption of junk food and a sedentary lifestyle. Yoga helps children counter these adverse effects and lead a healthy and energetic life.