| The history of Yoga has a lot to do with the present | | | | world, which were the ancienttexts brought by the |
| times. Yoga started some 5000years ago when | | | | Indus-Sarasvati civilization. It was a compilation of |
| human civilization has only begun. Scholars have | | | | hymns thatcommends a high power which included |
| believed that Yogawas originated out of Stone Age | | | | the oldest recorded teachings in Yoga. |
| 'Shamanism'. | | | | They have considered this the divine revelation. The |
| This is because there were some cultural similarities | | | | intelligence of the Vedas wasknown as the |
| between Mehrgarh which was a | | | | Pre-classical Yoga or the Vedic. This was described |
| Neolithic settlement and the Modern Hinduism. The | | | | by the ritualisticceremonies that the Yoga |
| shamanistic culture of Mergarhwas in fact influenced | | | | practitioners have been required in order to go |
| by Hindu ideals, symbols and rituals of the present. | | | | beyondthe limitations of the mind. |
| Theancient shamanism and early Yoga had so much | | | | The history of yoga would not have been completed |
| similarity for the reason bothwanted to go beyond | | | | in the classical stage of yoga. |
| the human condition. | | | | After the time and turn of the millennium, yoga and |
| Shamanism's primary goal was to heal the members | | | | its spread in different formshave come up with the |
| who were in their society and atthe same time act | | | | need for standardization. This is important so that |
| as the religious mediators. | | | | thepeople will be aware with it and it can be applied |
| Archaic Yoga also had the same purpose as they | | | | by them. Due to this, during thesecond century, C.E., |
| were community oriented and theyaimed to | | | | Patanjali has composed and collected seminal text |
| determine the enormous order through senses and | | | | which wasthe Yoga-Sutra which had defined the |
| inner vision which thencan be applied to our daily lives. | | | | Classical Yoga. |
| As time went on, Yoga has progressed and has | | | | At the age of Postclassical Yoga in the enormous |
| regarded the inmost experience. | | | | history of Yoga, it gave rise tosome productive |
| Yogis then have focused on how to improve the | | | | literature which has included the Tantra and the |
| individual enlightenment, recoveryand salvation. | | | | Hatha which isfamously known nowadays. These |
| Yoga's evidences were first tracked in the | | | | were taught in schools for Yoga and practiced |
| archeological evidence which was found instone seals | | | | bymany. Therefore, post classical Yoga is described |
| exhumed from the Indus valley. Yoga postures were | | | | to the adaptation of our presentstate. It is the time |
| traced and seen frothe figures which were illustrated | | | | when yoga has evolved greatly and introduced to |
| in the stone seals. the artifacts were placed on | | | | people. It hasthen been applied in the United States in |
| History books circa 3000 B.C., which was linked to | | | | the 1800ís. |
| the great Indus-Sarasvati | | | | Now in the recent decades, yoga has greatly and |
| Civilization which was known to be the largest | | | | swiftly evolved. Swami Sivanandawas one of the |
| civilization that exist in the ancientworld. The | | | | prominent gurus ever to master yoga. He has served |
| Indus-Sarasvati, being a maritime society, exported | | | | as a doctor andhe has generously opened up schools |
| goods all over Africaand the Middle East. They build | | | | in Europe and America. |
| up sewage systems and put up geometrical | | | | Now as we move on with the yoga practices that |
| brickroads and constructed multistory buildings. | | | | we have today, it is much helpfuland easier to |
| The Vedas are known as the oldest scripture in the | | | | understand if we looked back on the history of yoga. |