Only in India, or other countries? If so, which countries? .. What parts of India? etc.
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Where did Yoga originate, geographically?
Only in India, or other countries? If so, which countries? .. What parts of India? etc.
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The simple answer is India. The real answer is more complicated. Yoga as it is known now comes primarily from India. However, Sufis, the "Desert Fathers" and Christian monks all developed methods of meditation similar or analogous to Yoga as it is known today. So there exist similar practices in many other religions and regions.
Where Did Yoga Originate
I think initially in India but that is all I know. I learned first hand when I went to my first Yoga session in the US. The instructor kept having me volunteer to try moves and kept speaking directly to me since I was Indian. It was only after class that I found out that Yoga started in India - unfortunately my whole body hurt from that experience and I have not tried it again.
yoga originated from india, yes it was also from hinduism, sadhus and holymen have been doing yoga for over 10,000 years, our hindu god statues represent in yoga forms, people who say any different are jealous, this is the truth, yoga is from india from hinduism, not from anywhere else, but over the last 100 years people are making up facts here and there because they are jealous of hindu culture and as hinduism is over 15,000 years old.
Yoga originated in the Indus Valley Civilization area .
Although the development of yoga basics has been a long process with many influences, the overall path of the discipline can be divided into classical, post-classical and modern periods. The modern period, as it applies to the United States, is the time in which Hatha Yoga gained its primacy and importance. (In the United States the practice is more for exercise than as part of a spiritual quest for enlightenment.)
Classical Period
In the second century the first systemic presentation of yoga was made by Patanjali, the father of yoga, in the Yoga Sutras. This organized "eight limbed path" to quiet the mind and merge with the infinite still strongly influences styles of modern yoga today. The eight limbs in English are moral codes, self-purification and study, posture, breath control, sense control, concentration, contemplation, and meditation.
Post-Classical Period
In the centuries after Patanjali, yoga masters developed practices for the rejuvenation of the body and the prolongation of life, embracing perfection of the body as the only path to enlightenment, an important step in the origins of yoga as we know it. It was in this period that Tantra Yoga to cleanse the system and break ties to physical existence began to be perfected. In turn these mind-body-spirit connections led to the evolution of Hatha Yoga. This is the form most practiced in the West today. It uses physical exercises, controlled, breathing, relaxation, and meditation to balance the mind and body and to improve physical health.
Modern Period
Yoga masters began to travel to the west (all over the world, in fact) in the late 1800s and early 1900s. By the 1920s T. Krishnamacharya demonstrated Hatha Yoga throughout India and opened the first school to teach the practice. Three of his students significantly spread global yoga, in particular B.K.S. Iyengar, T.K.V. Desikachar and Pattabhi Jois.
In 1947 Indra Devi opened a yoga study in Hollywood which was the beginning of the spread and popularization of Hatha Yoga in the United States. The practice became wildly popular during the counterculture movement of the 1960s with the so-called "hippies" embracing many aspects of Eastern teaching and philosophy as they sought to distance themselves from the "establishment" and the traditional American values they so actively rejected
well i know that mant yoga tech. came from the vedas.
does that help/
so yes india-
india was allso the origination of martial arts....
an indian monk made a set of ways to exersice the body, then he went to China and showed them, and they developed it in to a fighting art (kung fu)
Yoga is a group of ancient spiritual practices originating in India. As a general term in Hinduism it has been defined as referring to "technologies or disciplines of asceticism and meditation which are thought to lead to spiritual experience and profound understanding or insight into the nature of existence.
" Yoga is also intimately connected to the religious beliefs and practices of the other Indian religions.
Several seals discovered at Indus Valley Civilization (c. 3300–1700 BC) sites depict figures in a yoga or meditation like posture. The most widely known of these was named the "Pashupati seal "by its discoverer, John Marshall, who believed that it represented a "proto-Shiva" figure. Many modern authorities discount the idea that this "Pashupati" (Lord of Animals, Sanskrit paśupati) represents a Shiva or Rudra figure.
There is considerable evidence to support the idea that the image's posture "is a form of ritual discipline, suggesting a precursor to yoga" according to archaeologist Gregory Possehl (who also questions the proto-Shiva theory). He points to sixteen other specific "yogi glyptics" in the corpus of Mature Harappan artifacts as pointing to Harappan devotion to "ritual discipline and concentration". These images show that the yoga pose "may have been used by deities and humans alike". He suggests that yoga goes back to the Indus Valley Civilization.
Gavin Flood characterizes these views as "speculative", saying that it is not clear from the 'Pashupati' seal that the figure is seated in a yoga posture, or even that the shape is intended to represent a human figure, though it is nevertheless possible that there are echoes of Shaiva iconographic themes, such as half-moon shapes resembling the horns of a bull. Other authorities do support the idea that the 'Pashupati' figure shows a figure in a yoga or meditation posture. They include Archaeologist Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, current Co-director of the Harappa Archaeological Research Project in Pakistan and Indologist Heinrich Zimmer.
In 2007, terracotta seals were discovered in the Cholistan Desert in Pakistan. Punjab University Archaeology Department Chairman Dr. Farzand Masih described one of the seals as similar to the previously discovered Mohenjodaro seals, with three pictographs on one side and a "yogi" on the other side.
Yoga originated in India within the Hindu culture. Though all the details of the ancient civilization of India are not available to us, the estimated dates for the first efforts to put Yogic and Vedic teachings into written form range from 8500 BC (based on astronomical coordinates mentioned in the writings) to 5500 BC Most of these sacred texts are collectively referred to as the “Vedas” and are sacred to Hindu religion. Though yoga originated in Hindu religion but it has been adopted by the whole world with two hands. People all over the globe are adopting and learning yoga for enrichment of their body mind and soul. Many other explanatory and supportive texts came later to further and enrich the understanding of the devotees. Among the remnants of Ancient Indian civilization, the findings of Harappa and Mohanjodaro civilizations are note worthy as they provide maximum traces to prove the existence of yoga. Those excavations were made and the commonly agreed date of this civilization is 3000 B.C. The Indus Valley Civilization was developed in almost all aspects of human life. It is in the remnants of this civilization of Harappa and Mohanjadaro that two seals in yogic posture have been found. These seals are in the famous Yogic posture.
i think in north of india