<p>The popularity of Yoga seems to be growing in China and has now percolated to prisons with a women's detention centre recently introducing the ancient Indian discipline to its inmates.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A women's detention house in Wuyi county in east China's Zhejiang province has been holding regular Yoga sessions for its inmates to help them "fight stress and find serenity".<br /><br />"The inmates are organised to do their favourite exercise -- Yoga -- every night. Their instructor Tang Junhui believes Yoga can help these women inmates to fight stress and find serenity," a photo feature carried by the state run People's Daily Online said.<br /><br />According to a brief write up, the detention house introduced Yoga to reduce the inmates' stress as most of them found it difficult to communicate and had mental pressures.<br /><br />"It worked well after Yoga courses were introduced in the detention house. Now the inmates enjoy doing Yoga, and they have become more cheerful and outgoing," it said.<br /><br />Yoga has become immensely popular in China in recent years with millions of Chinese of all age groups taking it through well established institutes.<br /><br />Yin Yan, former Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese edition of the ELLE international fashion magazine, who married Yoga exponent, Manmohan Singh Bhandari from Rishikesh, has established a wide network of her "Yoga Yogi" centres with a turnover of over USD eight million a year. She even started a college for Yoga last year.<br /><br />Noted Yoga guru B K S Iyengar is widely revered in China. Hundreds of followers attended his meetings when he visited the country for the first time in 2010.</p>
<p>The popularity of Yoga seems to be growing in China and has now percolated to prisons with a women's detention centre recently introducing the ancient Indian discipline to its inmates.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A women's detention house in Wuyi county in east China's Zhejiang province has been holding regular Yoga sessions for its inmates to help them "fight stress and find serenity".<br /><br />"The inmates are organised to do their favourite exercise -- Yoga -- every night. Their instructor Tang Junhui believes Yoga can help these women inmates to fight stress and find serenity," a photo feature carried by the state run People's Daily Online said.<br /><br />According to a brief write up, the detention house introduced Yoga to reduce the inmates' stress as most of them found it difficult to communicate and had mental pressures.<br /><br />"It worked well after Yoga courses were introduced in the detention house. Now the inmates enjoy doing Yoga, and they have become more cheerful and outgoing," it said.<br /><br />Yoga has become immensely popular in China in recent years with millions of Chinese of all age groups taking it through well established institutes.<br /><br />Yin Yan, former Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese edition of the ELLE international fashion magazine, who married Yoga exponent, Manmohan Singh Bhandari from Rishikesh, has established a wide network of her "Yoga Yogi" centres with a turnover of over USD eight million a year. She even started a college for Yoga last year.<br /><br />Noted Yoga guru B K S Iyengar is widely revered in China. Hundreds of followers attended his meetings when he visited the country for the first time in 2010.</p>