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Yoga is known as yogis; it is derived from the Sanskrit word Yuga, meaning union or unification. Yoga-asana is considered one of the best techniques for self-realisation. The yoga philosophy and practices were given to us more than 4000 years ago by Maharishi Patanjali, one of India's seven sages. His most famous, classic and authenticated text is Patanjali Yoga Sutras' (Vivekananda, 2015). Yoga has been designed to practice, which can unite and amalgamate the body and mind with the soul. The yoga discipline enables one to reach a high consciousness level balancing the inner self with the outside world(Allison, 2007). In other words, it is a blueprint to achieve excellence in human life. The optimum human life span can be enhanced to 100plus years with Yoga practice (Sharma, 1995; Gupta et al., 2016).
Yoga differs from other aerobic exercises by its excellent mechanism to control the human mind (Nieman, 2011). Extensive scientific research has proved Yoga to be a valuable tool in combating the modern stressful life characterised by psychosomatic and psychiatric problems (Rath, 2016). People who practice Yoga have reported improvement in their work efficiency with a decreased level of stress; they have also experienced other benefits like reduction in blood pressure, increase in vitality, clarity in thinking, relaxed feeling while in action (Verma et al.,2017; Harne et al., 2019).
Quality of life (QoL) is defined as the perception of life with context to the value system, culture, environment condition, physiological health, psychological health, expectation from life and goals to achieve in an individual life (WHO-QoL User Manual, 1996; Karmakar et al., 2017). Those people who have higher (QoL) are better positioned to face the challenges and are optimistic; they actively contribute to community welfare and remain happy with family and friends. Many researchers have studied this fact, who found that less privileged people or very old aged people can live a better life with a change in perception towards life(Hooker, 2016). Some other researchers have explained the quality of life as individuals with subjective and objective aspects(Preedy et al., 2010; Helliwell et al., 2020).
The founder of the magazine Yoga and Health, Ronald Hutchinson, has written, 'Yoga Works! Nothing which did not work could survive for so long. Its continual evolution makes it unlike religions, which tend to become fossilised around their founders' sayings.
Millions worldwide are regular Yoga practitioners, which seem flexible enough to meet people's various needs. However, Yoga has been found to abode even in the present-day corporate boardrooms (Claridge et al., 2017). No physical exercise system can tone muscles and enhance flexibility with less pain, strain, and severe injury danger. There is perhaps no safer way to relax and calm the mind than yogic breathing and meditation (Bhandari et al., 2010). As per Rastogi et al. (2018), the stress level is directly related to biofeedback, an alternate therapy to reduce stress and tension-type disorders by self-control (Hooker et al., 2016).
This research design is an amalgamation of western kind of lifestyle at the workplace as employees are under high work pressure to meet the targets in the competitive market, and the eastern preview of Yoga in getting rid of muscle rigidness and providing a smooth, flexible body for better physical health with quality of life at workplace. The authors' effort is to bring forward the effect of Yoga among employees of India's multinational corporate houses; thereby, a population of blue & white collared employees with contemporary lifestyle challenges requires attention for this kind of research work.
For years, human beings have been trying their best to live a healthy, peaceful and simple life in society. But, unfortunately, humans have often faced danger, terror, etc., but now they have found their peace of life from Yoga and Meditation. This ancient system is the same treatment for stressed-out modern people of the twenty-first century. Yoga has been in existence for the past4,000 years. The various yoga disciplines were developed in India about 1,500 years ago for achieving a state of 'effortless flow of human life (Ross et al., 2014).