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It is said in the some of the oldest text in yoga that one can become free from suffering by the practice of yoga. These benefits are archived by following the 8 Limbs Of Yoga.
Slowly becoming detached from the need for worldly possessions and becoming engrossed with the task of blending into a realization that the practitioner is one with god and something deeper than the body or the mind.
Yoga Benefits the Spine Strength and flexibility. 
Yoga is filled with many yoga postures that benefit both back strength and flexibility. Overstretching or streching too much can often result in a back condition so be careful the cure does not become the cause. For more read yoga for back pain which has 2 tutorials on how to keep your back healthy.
An example of how a yoga sequence that benefits back pain by exercising it and balancing muscles.
Yoga has many benefits and curing or maintaning the spine is just a grain of sand in the sea of benefits yoga brings.
Aums are one of the many forms of Pranayama that help to strengthen the diaphragm and aid breathing. They also have the added benefit of calming the nervous system.
With yoga meditation one withdraws from all that is external. The practitioner transcends the external world for long periods of time and gains an awareness from an unseen world where matter does not exist.
"Many forms of suffering cannot exist when one dwells within a state of yoga. This occurs in the more advanced stages in yoga. Despair, loneliness and fear cannot exist in these higher states of consciousness. This is why Buddha and Patanjali refused to except suffering and saw it as an illusion, not reality."
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