More and more doctors are starting to precribe Yoga for Chronic pain.  However,  most people  think that yoga can help because you are moving your body, and whereever the pain is located you might be able to bring relief to that area through gentle movement. But the underlying reasons, the less obvious reasons why yoga helps is because of neuroscience.  And these reasons may not be immediately obvious.  I recently listened to Dr. Rangan Chatterjee interview Dr. Harold Schubiner for his podcast Feel Better Live More podcast.   They were talking about chronic pain. No evidence of Chronic Pain  If you take a random group of healthy 30 year olds, and do an MRI scan, and these are people with no pain at all , 40% of them will show to have degenerative disc disease in their spine.  30% will have bulging discs. These are 30 year olds and none of them have pain.   These are normal findings that occur with aging.   And what happens when you are 50?  At 50 years old, 80% of people have deg