Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he’d prefer to begin

practicing yoga with spiritual practices.

"Yoga is about the development from the physical to the spiritual. Let us say I have

started with the spiritual," Putin said smilingly when asked at a news conference whether

he had already begun practicing yoga. "But this also means efforts to refine oneself."

At a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, the Russian president

promised to try to practice yoga to the best of his abilities. "Yoga is something I've

never done so far but it can't help being attractive. I'll see what my condition permits

me to do proceeding from the level of my physical fitness," Putin said. "When you look at

real yogis, it seems no one can attain this kind of perfection and the thought stops

you.".
Source: Itar-Tass