Yoga is my passion.  I teach it to the people of my town and they've been very receptive.
It's a really great practice for spirituality, and also the physical and mental. It actually originated in ancient India.
Yeah, it has religious links, but I tell most of my students that it's mainly for low impact exercise.  I'm not running a church here, heh.
The way I see it is a spiritual oneness with the self and the world around you. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism all revolve around that thought in relation to yoga.
Yeah I had a few students get really into the spirutal part of it and on became a Buddhist.  I wonder if he was heading that way already, and yoga helped him.
That's pretty cool. It's amazing how long it has been around. They found Hatha yoga texts from around the 11th century.
That long, eh?  I used to make a pretty good money teaching yoga, but it got way more popualr and usddenly I have a lot of competition.
Yeah, it's been on an upward popular trend since the 1980s and I don't see it slowing down any time soon in the Western World.
I think we'll hit peak Yoga sooner than later though, once a new popualr exercise emerges.  then I can be left to study and teach yoga to true adherents who aren't chasing fads.
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
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