As a yoga teacher, I am blessed to witness daily, the laws of physics turned upside-down.

This 5,000-year-old practice from India, which has popularizing trendy stretch pants and pretzel-bent workouts across the globe, can also, amazingly, reverse Sister Time and the effects of aging.

Yoga is no “miracle” creme, to be sure – but, over the years, I have watched many men and women, who’ve committed to a regular yoga practice, miraculously grow younger before my very eyes!

So, what is this fountain of youth, this nature-defying talisman, that seems to peel back the layers of time and give body and mind a nip ‘n’ tuck, without elective surgery?

This is the answer that has come to me, after hundreds of hours closely observing my students in class, and time spent on my yoga mat, being a student, myself:

Yoga looks at aging much...