Life really begins at forty, so it is still not too late to initiate yourself into the world of yoga if you are not practising it already. You have more time for yourself now than ever before and these simple and effective asanas help you invest it constructively in your health and well-being. There are meditation techniques specially designed to nurture you and bring you inner peace. The asanas help strengthen you physically, mentally and spiritually, besides gearing you up for the peculiar problems you are about to face, like menopause and empty nest.

Don't be surprised if you find yourself falling in love with yourself all over again!

Seema Sondhi is a well-known yoga expert. A mother of two teenaged daughters, she has been practising yoga for more than a decade. She has done various TV shows and has appeared on channels like CNN and CNBC, apart from being regularly featured in the print media.

The middle age is a critical and an important stage in a woman's life, which is full of tremendous changes and if you are heading towards it you will feel that you just don't know yourself anymore. You are not the same active, confident office manager or the home manager you used to be; you find yourself thinking, talking and behaving in a totally different way. When you are in such a fragile and sensitive condition, yoga comes to the rescue and helps find the REAL YOU, which is hidden behind a veil of problems.