I have been trying Yoga lately, but am not very good at it.  Do you do Yoga?
I do not yet, but its been around since the sixth and fifth centuries it seems.
You are kidding!  I thought Yoga was a new age thing.  Who invented it?
The earlier texts give credit to the Hindus.
Interesting.  Was Yoga a religious thing or was it just for health reasons?
It did not become known as a exercise until the 1980s
I sort of figured that.  There is too much focus on other aspects other than the actual stretching actions to think it was just for exercise.
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
him orders, I don’t want to do that, and he doesn’t want me to do that, and my first instinct, as a woman, was to smooth it out for him. The director was like, no, you’re a sergeant now. You have to give orders. You have authority. I'm a feminist, it’s 2015. She resides in Montréal, Quebec.
Brochu is fluent in English and French but can also speak Spanish well. She can perform contemporary dance and yoga.