I've been really into working out recently as well as trying some yoga as well, which is basically physical, mental, and spiritual practices and movements from India.
Interesting, I know yoga is very popular right now, but I didn't know it's origins. I need to work out more too.
It was credited that Hindu Upanishads were the first people to practice yoga.
I don't know much about Hindu culture, but it's cool to know they basically invented yoga.
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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