Yoga is an ancient Indian physical, mental, and spiritual practice that originated in pre-Vedic Indian traditions but was most developed between the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. The earliest known texts describing yoga practices are unclear but are credited to Hindu scriptures from the 3rd century BCE or later. Hatha yoga texts emerged in the 11th century CE and were originally linked to Tantrism. Yoga masters later introduced the practice to the Western world following Swami Vivekananda's success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While yoga in Indian traditions is more than just exercise and has a meditative and spiritual core, studies on its effectiveness for conditions like schizophrenia, cancer, asthma, and

1. Yoga exercise is undoubtedly an Indian nativephysical and mental, and psychic exercise or discipline.
There exists a extensive assortment of goals, practices and schools[1] in Hinduism, Buddhism (which
include Vajrayana and Tibetan Buddhism[2][3][4]) and Jainism.[5][6][7][6] The very best-identified are
Hatha yoga exercises and Raja yoga and fitness. 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 exercises Sutras of Patanjali from first 50 % of first millennium CE is
among an important making it through major messages on Yoga exercises.[11][12]
Hatha yoga exercises texts surfaced all around 11th century CE, and in its roots was linked to
Tantrism.[13][14] Yoga and fitness masters from India later on launched yoga exercise for the western
side,[15] subsequent the success of Swami Vivekananda from the late 19th and early on 20th
century.[15] From the 1980s, yoga exercises became common as a system of physical activity
throughout the Western world.[14]
Yoga in Native indian customs, nonetheless, is a lot more than exercising, it possesses a meditative and
spiritual central.[16] Among the six major orthodox educational institutions of Hinduism is also referred
to as Yoga, which features its own epistemology and metaphysics, and it is directly linked to Hindu
Samkhya philosophy.[17] Numerous research has tried to determine the effectiveness of yoga exercises
as being a complementary assistance for schizophrenia, cancer and asthma and coronary disease. The
results of these scientific studies[18][19] are already mixed and inconclusive, with many forms of cancer
studies advising none to not clear effectiveness, yet others recommending yoga exercise might minimize
threat factors and aid inside a patient's mental process of recovery