Read more about the history of Yoga

Read more about the history of Yoga
br p first Yogi, really in the sands of time was lost, but if we learn from history b Yoga /b, the roots can be as long as 5,000 years for implementation. The earliest mention Yoga found in archaeological sites such as the Indus Valley - the most powerful and influential civilization in early antiquity. Develop this sophisticated culture around the Indus River and the old Sarasvati River in the North of India, on the border with Pakistan./p archaeological from the two largest cities finds, were Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa (among others) the portrait of a man of God, to meditate, what looks like a yoga posture. Rig Veda work, various yoga practice probably by INUS Sarasvati people come and 3000 - 5000 BC /p is Yoga dated as we know, is the result of a complex development in at least 5000 years. But according to most researchers, yoga can not a full and complex tradition of around 500 BC. /p b Vedic Yoga /b /p the earliest written evidence of Indian culture and yoga can be taken into account in the Vedas, a collection of songs and rituals be found more than 3000 years old. Vedic yoga, yoga as archaic centers around the idea of reunification of the visible material world with the unseen spiritual world by giving up certain things known. From this ritual practice a considerable success, it was necessary to concentrate the mind at level. This inner concentration as a means to the human senses and skills to the root of all yoga./p Vedic teachings p here that for a religious elite reserved, but was instead of Vedic people bythe Prophet as the means rishis, that insight into the origins of life and its there. The songs of the prophets witness is a strong intuition, wisdom and knowledge of the man of who can inspire new levels of understanding to people today./p pre classical Yoga b /b / p this period in the history of Yoga ranging in 200 over 2000 years. The most important Yoga literature from this period are regarded Upanishad - a collection of texts about metaphysical speculation – and how the Vedas as mystical revelations. Contrary to the public rituals of the Vedic period, the real secret Upanishad font./p round 200 of this Gnostic texts directly with Yoga and busy is linked to the full commitment of all things in context. Yoga is slow to find his form. When yoga teachings is the secret from teacher to student distributed Yogi or guru, started the concept of each system of thinking to take shape./p Bhagavad Gita, the most famous and popular works in Hindi and all yogic literature is written during this period (500 BC). There is a nice story about a conversation between the God of Hinduism, Krishna and Arjuna, a Prince named. The history, ironically, is on a battlefield. This place is often interpreted as a metaphor for the many distractions in our turbulent world. Prince Arjuna was in a difficult situation where he must fight a part of his family and friends./p symbolic is this frustration expressed, that prince Arjuna some advice on how links that wanted to control the material world build to itself and his thoughts are free. Krishna tells Arjuna fate and the duty to this situation face. He then moved to explain how hecould fight the winner of Arjuna, by building a detailed yogic path for the Prince, devotion (Bhakti Yoga), a sharp mind (jnana Yoga) and the indication of the self (Karma Yoga), spiritual complete freedom (Moksha) can be achieved./p course is a complex work, the Bhagavad Gita and let's, pondering, and then studied some more. It is interesting to read history of yoga classes./p