AbstractModern life patterns affect our health in different aspects physically, psychologically, and socially. There is a need for increasing people awareness about the effect of modern life to control the effects of the patterns of life. Promoting healthy lifestyle includes proper eating, physical activity, and better way of communicating and socializing in the community. All these have positive impacts which we can easily get in practising yoga. Thousands of years ago yoga originated in India, Yoga will reduce the risk of getting so many diseases which resulted from our day-to-day lifestyles. Yoga is reported to reduce stress and anxiety, improves autonomic functions by triggering neurohormonal mechanisms by the suppression of sympathetic activity, it involves eight limbsof yoga (Asthanyoga), which include yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana, and samadhi. Health is a primary goal of any individual and hence without spending lots of money by practicing Yoga one can achieve proper health. This article therefore, deals with significance of Yoga in modern life to encourage the reader to practice Yoga to sustain physical, social, and spiritual health.