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Yoga Is A Group of Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Practices or Disciplines Which Originated in

Yoga originated in ancient India and has a variety of schools and practices in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. While its origins date back to pre-Vedic traditions, it was most likely developed between the 6th-5th centuries BCE in India's ascetic movements. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali from the 1st century CE gained prominence in the West in the 20th century, while Hatha yoga texts emerged in the 11th century with origins in tantra. In the late 19th century, Swami Vivekananda introduced yoga to the western world, and it became a popular exercise system there in the 1980s, though yoga in Indian traditions has always had a medit

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Yoga Is A Group of Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Practices or Disciplines Which Originated in

Yoga originated in ancient India and has a variety of schools and practices in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. While its origins date back to pre-Vedic traditions, it was most likely developed between the 6th-5th centuries BCE in India's ascetic movements. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali from the 1st century CE gained prominence in the West in the 20th century, while Hatha yoga texts emerged in the 11th century with origins in tantra. In the late 19th century, Swami Vivekananda introduced yoga to the western world, and it became a popular exercise system there in the 1980s, though yoga in Indian traditions has always had a medit

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Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in

ancient India. There is a broad variety of Yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism,
Buddhism, and Jainism. Among the most well-known types of yoga are Hatha yoga and Rja
yoga.
The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions, it is
mentioned in the Rigveda but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in
ancient India's ascetic and raman a movements. The chronology of earliest texts describing
yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads and Buddhist Pli Canon,
probably of third century BCE or later. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali date from the first half of
the 1st millennium CE, but only gained prominence in the West in the 20th century. Hatha yoga
texts emerged around the 11th century with origins in tantra.
Yoga gurus from India later introduced yoga to the west, following the success of Swami
Vivekananda in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a
system of physical exercise across the Western world. Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is
more than physical exercise, it has a meditative and spiritual core. One of the six major orthodox
schools of Hinduism is also called Yoga, which has its own epistemology and metaphysics, and
is closely related to Hindu Samkhya philosophy.
Many studies have tried to determine the effectiveness of yoga as a complementary intervention
for cancer, schizophrenia, asthma, and heart disease. The results of these studies have been
mixed and inconclusive, with cancer studies suggesting none to unclear effectiveness, and others
suggesting yoga may reduce risk factors and aid in a patient's psychological healing process.[

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