1. Most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in ancient India's ascetic circles, which
are also credited with the early sramana movements.[8][note 1] The chronology of earliest texts
describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads[9] and Buddhist Pali
Canon,[10] probably of third century BCE or later, even though the origins of Yoga have been speculated
to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions. The Yoga exercise Sutras of Patanjali particular date through
the first one half of the first century CE,[11][12] only acquired prominence in the 20th century.[13]
Hatha yoga exercise text messages surfaced all around 11th century CE, and then in its origins was
linked to Tantrism.[14][15] Yin Yoga
Yoga exercise gurus from India afterwards introduced yoga exercises on the western,[16] adhering to
the achievements of Swami Vivekananda in the later 19th and earlier 20th century.[16] Inside the 1980s,
yoga grew to become common as a system of physical exercise across the Western world.[15] Yoga
exercise in Native indian traditions, even so, is much more than exercising, it features a meditative and
spiritual key.[17] Among the half a dozen main orthodox educational institutions of Hinduism is likewise
referred to as Yoga, which features its own epistemology and metaphysics, and is closely related to
Hindu Samkhya vision.[18]
A lot of reports have attempted to discover the efficiency of yoga and fitness being a complementary
intervention for cancer, schizophrenia and asthma and cardiovascular disease. The outcome of these
studies[19][20] have been combined and inconclusive, with cancers reports suggesting none to
uncertain efficiency, yet others recommending yoga and fitness might minimize chance factors and aid
in the patient's mental health process of healing.