Hi there, do you like yoga? I love Hatha yoga and Rāja yoga.
I have never done yoga. What are the benefits?
It mostly a physical exercise but also has meditative and spiritual benefits
I've heard people can do it to relax and get rid of stress.
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
Indian traditions has been more than physical exercise; it has a meditative and spiritual core. Outside India, "yoga" has come to mean a form of posture-based fitness regimen, a stress-relief and relaxation technique. Modern yoga has adopted innovations from Western gymnastics and other practices.
Some versions of modern yoga contain reworkings of the ancient spiritual tradition, and practices vary from wholly secular, for exercise and relaxation, through to undoubtedly spiritual, whether in traditions like Sivananda Yoga or in personal rituals. Modern yoga