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Posture or aasan is a popular branch of Yog to maintain the physical balance. Saint Patanjali is very generous and simple while defining aasan. According to him, stable and comfortable position is aasan. Different writers have different opinions with respect to number of aasan and the most interesting is the one given in Dhyanbindupanishadkar According to it, the number of postures is equal to the number of species of life. It is necessary to strengthen the muscles and nerves in order to keep the body healthy. Posture and exercise strengthen the muscles and nerves. Exercise plays a very important role in supplying the nourishment to different parts of the body obtained through food. Absence of exercise gives rise to imbalanced body. Posture and light exercises strengthen our respiratory system. The therapists are using different yogsana in the successful treatment of various diseases. Different diseases occurring in stomach, neck, spine and knees are cured with popular aasans. Yog is fully capable of transforming the physical body.