Stretch your way to happiness

Feeling down, stressed or unfit? Yoga could be the easy answer, says Gabrielle Fagan

IT’S easy to assume that yoga is simply a fashionable pastime for celebrities who hanker to contort their bodies into weird shapes.

Lawyer Jonathan Sattin was worried about his health and stress levels but the only action he took was having an occasional herbal tea and relying on regular games of football to flush out toxins from drinking 14 mugs of coffee and smoking 40 cigarettes a day.