Yoga (English: Yoga, Hindi:? ) is a Chinese vocabulary, which comes from Indian Sanskrit "yug" or "yuji", meaning consistency, "combination" or "harmony".
Yoga originated in ancient India and is one of the six philosophical schools in ancient India. It explores the truth and method of "the unity of Brahma and Me". What modern people call yoga is mainly a series of methods to cultivate one's self-cultivation.
Around 300 BC, Patanjali (English: Patanjali, Hindi:), the ancestor of Indian Mahayana Yoga, wrote the Yoga Sutra, on the basis of which Indian yoga really took shape, and the practice of yoga was formally defined as a complete system of eight branches. Yoga is a system that helps human beings to give full play to their potential by raising their consciousness.
Yoga posture uses ancient and easy-to-master skills to improve people's physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual abilities. It is an exercise method to achieve the harmony and unity of body, mind and spirit, including posture method, breathing method and meditation method, so as to achieve the unity of body and mind.
Yoga is a 5,000-year-old physical, psychological and spiritual exercise, which originated in India and aims to improve the body and mind. 20 14,11February, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 2 1 day as the International Yoga Day, and the first International Yoga Day was held in 20 15.
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Yoga originated in India and has a history of more than 5,000 years. It is called "the treasure of the world". Yoga originated in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. Yoga practitioners in ancient India created a series of physical and mental exercise systems, namely postures, by observing, imitating and experiencing animal postures.
The record of yoga first appeared in the Vedas of India. Around 300 BC, patanjali, the ancestor of yoga, elaborated the training courses to make people healthy and full of energy in Yoga Sutra.
This course is systematic and standardized, which forms the basis of contemporary yoga practice. The philosophical principle put forward by patanjali is regarded as a milestone in the spiritual field of yoga.