Yoga - Ancient Concept

The origin of yoga is undoubtedly India, where man's activities directed towards higher spiritual achievements. Yoga is to bring about a man's usual everyday experience and capacity to grasp a vision.It is that practice that our whole personality transformed and can function in a new dimension.Yoga is a purely spiritual practice that originated India, where it remains vibrant living tradition and is seen as a means of enlightenment .

Yoga is said to be as old as civilization,there is no physical evidence to support this claim.The earliest signs of yoga appear in ancient Shaman ism.Evidence of yoga postures were found on artifacts that date back to 3000 B.C. The primary goal of Shaman ism was to heal members of community and act as religious mediators.Some people believe that it is originated 26000 years ago, during the period of "Sat Yuga" also called  the Golden age. Yoga came into India with the discovery of Indus-Valley civilization,that knowledge about the origin of yoga came into light.It was most likely to born in India and was subsequently adopted by Hinduism as well as Buddhism and Jainism.

No one knows exactly when yoga began,but the ultimate goal of yoga is attainment of liberation from worldly sufferings and the cycle of birth and death.It affects not only the conscious but the subconscious as well. It generates good health and contributes to longevity.Yoga provides all round benefit to a human body.This healing practice is gifted to us by ancient saints with some purpose and reason.So this ancient concept has lot to do with the philosophical and the spiritual.