What Is Yoga?

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Yoga can seem like a complicated concept – or, at the least, a dizzying array of physical manipulations that turn seemingly happy-looking human beings into happy looking human pretzels.

Even more disconcerting, a stereotype does exist in places where the term yoga is synonymous with cult, or some kind of archaic spiritual belief that compels one to quit their job, sell their house, and go live in the middle of nowhere.

In actual fact, Yoga is a very basic “thing”. If youve had the opportunity to visit a country where it has been established for generations India, Japan, China, and others its really rather, well, “ordinary”.

The practice of yoga came to the west back in 1893 when one of Indias celebrated gurus, Swami Vivekananda, was welcomed at the World Fair in Chicago. He is now known for having sparked the Wests interest in yoga.

Literally, the word yoga comes from the Sanskrit term Yug, which means: to yoke, bind, join, or direct ones attention. At the same time, yoga can also imply concepts such as fusion, union, and discipline.

The sacred scriptures of Hinduism (an ancient belief system from India that...

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