Yoga is such a great exercise for the body. Do you?
No I don't, but I do not that there is a wide variety of yoga schools, practices and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
That's true. I feel like it has become more popular in the West, recently
The most well known it seems are Hatha yoga and Raja yoga.  Do you know what kind you practice?
I do not really practice any, but do my own types of stretches
Oh, I see!  It seems that yoga developed around the 5th and 6th centuries BCE - so it's been around for a very very long time.
Wow that's such a long time! A classic tradition
Exactly!  And then the yoga gurus from India introduced it to the West in the late 19th and 20th century, so fairly recent in the grand scheme of things in the US
That's a pretty long time. I didn't realize it took that long
gurus from India later introduced yoga to the West, following the success of Swami Vivekananda in the late 19th and early 20th century with his adaptation of yoga tradition, excluding asanas. Outside India, it has developed into a posture-based physical fitness, stress-relief and relaxation technique. 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
Yoga
Yoga (; ; ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. Yoga is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophical traditions. There is a broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The term "yoga" in the Western world often denotes a modern form of Hatha yoga, yoga as exercise, consisting largely of the postures called asanas.
The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back