history: Yoga is my passion.  I teach it to the people of my town and they've been very receptive.
knowledge: Yoga (; Sanskrit, योगः Listen) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India.
response: Good to know that. Yoga actually originated in ancient India.
history: Yoga is my passion.  I teach it to the people of my town and they've been very receptive.
Good to know that. Yoga 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.
knowledge: There is a broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
response: Which one is your yoga school? Yoga has a variety of practices and goals in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism.
history: Yoga is my passion.  I teach it to the people of my town and they've been very receptive.
Good to know that. Yoga 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.
Which one is your yoga school? Yoga has a variety of practices and goals in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism.
I don't think I have one. I had a few students get really into the spiritual part of it and on became a Buddhist. I wonder if he was heading that way already, and yoga helped him.
knowledge: Hatha yoga texts emerged around the 11th century with origins in tantra.
response: That's pretty cool. It's amazing how long it has been around. They found Hatha yoga texts from around the 11th century.
history: Yoga is my passion.  I teach it to the people of my town and they've been very receptive.
Good to know that. Yoga 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.
Which one is your yoga school? Yoga has a variety of practices and goals in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism.
I don't think I have one. I had a few students get really into the spiritual 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.
knowledge: In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise across the Western world.
response: Well, as far as I know, yoga became popular in the Western world in the 1980s
history: Yoga is my passion.  I teach it to the people of my town and they've been very receptive.
Good to know that. Yoga 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.
Which one is your yoga school? Yoga has a variety of practices and goals in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism.
I don't think I have one. I had a few students get really into the spiritual 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.
Well, as far as I know, yoga became popular in the Western world in the 1980s
I think we'll hit peak yoga sooner rather than later, though, once a new popular exercise emerges. Then I can be left to study and teach yoga to true adherents who aren't chasing fads.
knowledge: Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is more than physical exercise; it has a meditative and spiritual core.
response: One thing I just learned is that in India, yoga has a meditative core as well.