Jennifer Aniston - Aniston: 'Yoga Gave Me Strength'

JENNIFER ANISTON credits yoga with helping her get over her heartache following her split from BRAD PITT.

The actress insists she's not a yoga-mad type who carries a mat with her at all times, but she can understand women who become obsessed - because her classes have given her renewed strength.

She says, "I'm doing the yoga thing... y'know the mind, body, soul of it all."

And the former FRIENDS star reveals she had an epiphany at the end of a yoga class recently.

She explains, "I was doing yoga with my girlfriend and we were finished and we were sort of sitting there just sort of stretching and I looked over at her and I said, 'You know what, I'm feeling a feeling I don't know if I've ever actually felt before, and that is I don't want to be anywhere other than where I am right now - sitting across from you.'

Aniston feels sure she wouldn't have arrived at that point if she'd spend months buried in self-help books that her friends suggested she read: "You can intellectualise it but the truth is you sit there going, 'How do I do that?' and you're frustrated and you get down on yourself because you're not there yet and then you just realise one day, 'It's happened...'"