Yoga originated in ancient India and has a long history within Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It began as a physical, mental, and spiritual practice combining breathing, physical postures, and meditation. The earliest texts describing yoga practices date back to between the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. Yoga Sutras attributed to Patanjali were written in the 1st century CE and helped establish yoga philosophy. Modern hatha yoga techniques developed around the 11th century CE. Yoga spread to the Western world in the late 19th century and became widely popular as a physical fitness system in the 1980s, though it has deeper spiritual aspects within Indian traditions. Research on yoga as a complementary practice for conditions

1. Yoga (/'jo? g? /; Sanskrit: ? ?? , Pay attention) is actually a actual physical, mental, and faith based
practice or discipline which started in India. There exists a wide selection of goals, practices and
schools[1] in Hinduism, Buddhism (including Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism[2][3][4]) and
Jainism.[5][6][7][6] The ideal-known are Hatha yoga and fitness and Raja yoga exercises. Yoga
The origins of Yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions, but 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. The Yoga and fitness Sutras of Patanjali date in the initially 50 % of the first
century CE,[11][12] but only gained prominence inside the twentieth century.[13] Hatha yoga text
messages come about all around 11th century CE, and also in its origins was relevant to Tantrism.[14][15]
Yoga exercises specialists from India later launched yoga and fitness for the west,[16] pursuing the
success of Swami Vivekananda inside the late 19th and early on 20th century.[16] Inside the 1980s, yoga
exercise grew to be fashionable as a system of physical exercise throughout the Civilized world.[15] Yoga
exercise in Indian native traditions, nevertheless, is far more than physical exercise, it possesses a
spiritual and meditative core.[17] One of the six key orthodox educational institutions of Hinduism is
likewise known as Yoga exercise, which features its own epistemology and metaphysics, which is directly
related to Hindu Samkhya vision.[18]
Numerous research has experimented with to determine the performance of yoga exercise like a
supporting involvement for schizophrenia, asthma and cancer and heart problems. The outcome of
these scientific studies[19][20] have been mixed and inconclusive, with many forms of cancer studies
indicating not one to unclear effectiveness, as well as others recommending yoga exercise may possibly
minimize danger aid and factors in the patient's mental recovery process.