Yoga

 Yoga is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. Yoga is one among the six Ä€stika schools of Hindu philosophical traditions. there's a broad sort of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The term "Yoga" within the Western world often denotes a contemporary sort of yoga and yoga as exercise, consisting largely of the postures or asanas. The practice of yoga has been thought so far back to pre-vedic Indian traditions; possibly within the Indus valley civilization around 3000 BCE. Yoga is mentioned within the Rigveda, and also referenced within the Upanishads. Although, yoga presumably developed as a scientific study round the 5th and 6th centuries BCE, in ancient India's ascetic and Å›ramaṇa movements. The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to the Upanishads. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali go back the 2nd century BCE, and gained prominence within the west within the 20th century after being first introduced by Swami Vivekananda. yoga texts began to emerge sometime between the 9th and 11th century with origins in tantra.   Yoga gurus from India later introduced yoga to the West, following the success of Swami Vivekananda within the late 19th and early 20th century together with his adaptation of yoga tradition, excluding asanas. Outside India, it's developed into a posture-based fitness , stress-relief and relaxation technique. Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is quite physical exercise; it's a meditative and spiritual core. One among the six major orthodox schools of Hinduism is additionally called Yoga, which has its own epistemology, ontology and metaphysics, and is closely associated with Hindu Samkhya philosophy.