Yoga for wellness

Yoga for wellness

Yoga without any doubt on a fast track to take over the world. Training centers, yoga based wellness and detox resorts, magazines devoted to yoga alone, discussions, communities, etc the list goes on and on. Media did played a big part in popularising the the yoga along with rich and famous personalities like Madonna, Meg Ryan, Sting, Dennis Quaid, Ricky Martin, Jennifer Aniston etc. But what drives the popularity of yoga? Why people wants to practice yoga?

Yoga was originated in ancient India, only yogis practiced yoga in those days, possibly due to lack of mass education and cast systems that divided general public into social hierarchy. Many consider yoga was in practice around 3000 BC, Buddha studied and practiced yoga & meditation. He achieved enlightenment when he was 35 years old. It was Patanjali who lived in second century wrote a text called the Yoga Sutra, an attempt to standardize and define the yoga practice.

Yoga was introduced to west during 19^th Century, in many universities yoga was studied as part of eastern studies. There are many people who made it possible to popularize yoga in west, prominent among are Maharishi Mahesh, Yoga Guru Swami Sivananda. Sivananda opened many yoga schools in US and Europe.