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A group of people practicing yoga.Yoga (/ˈjoʊɡə/;^[1] Sanskrit, Listen) is a physical, mental, andspiritual practice or discipline which originated in India. There is a broad variety of schools, practices, and goals^[2] in Hinduism,Buddhism and Jainism.^[3][4][5][4] Among the most well-known types of yoga are Hatha yoga and Rāja yoga.^[6]

The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-VedicIndian traditions, is mentioned in the Rigveda,^{[note 1]} but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in ancient India's ascetic and śramaṇa movements.^{[8][note 2]} The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads^[9] and Buddhist Pāli Canon,^[10] probably of third century BCE or later. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali date from the first half of the 1st millennium CE,^[11][12] but only gained prominence in the West in the 20th century.^[13] Hatha yoga texts emerged around the 11th century with origins in tantra.^[14][15]

Yoga gurus from India later introduced yoga to the west,^[16] following the success of Swami Vivekananda in the late 19th and early 20th century.^[16] In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise across the Western world.^[15] Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is more than physical exercise, it has a meditative and spiritual core.^[17] One of the six major orthodox schools of Hinduism is also called Yoga, which has its own epistemology and metaphysics, and is closely related to Hindu Samkhyaphilosophy.^[18]

Many studies have tried to determine the effectiveness of yoga as a complementary intervention for cancer, schizophrenia, asthma, and heart disease.^[19][20] The results of these studies have been mixed and inconclusive, with cancer studies suggesting none to unclear effectiveness, and others suggesting yoga may reduce risk factors and aid in a patient's psychological healing process.^{[19][20]      IT WILL BE CONTINUE}R...