Yoga and its benefits
... …These are the profound questions to which traditional Yoga seeks to provide plausible answers. ... Yoga did for me what a rhinoplasty could not. ... Where did Yoga come from? We have evidence of the existence of Yoga in India 5000 or more years ago. According to Feuerstein, Yoga has its origin in the Vedas; it’s scriptures being written in Sanskrit. ... com website, Yoga means “Yoke” or “Union” and is that state of mind where one is able to stay focused on one particular direction only, without distractions. ... The history of modern Yoga is thought to have begun with the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. ... After him were many famous Yogis like, Paramahamsa Yogananda and Patanjali, who defined the fundamentals of modern Yoga.