Feeling tired? Under too much stress? No time to exercise? Well, you can try yoga. It’s what more and more people have been turning to when they want to ease the troubles of modern life.

Yoga has become so popular in recent years. It’s easy to overlook the fact that it is actually one of mankind’s oldest activities. Scholars think that yoga came from the methods used by wizards of the Indus Valley, more than 5,000 years ago.

Wizards were the holy men of early human civilization. Their roles in society were to communicate with the spirit world to find solutions to problems facing their people. Over time, these wizards developed a system of mental and physical exercises to expand their thought. These exercises made the foundation of modern yoga.

For thousands of years yoga was practiced mainly in India. Yoga was practically unknown to the West until the 1960s, when popular culture began to show an interest in Eastern religions. Pop stars, such as the Beatles, helped popularize yoga by showing interest in yogic meditation(冥想).

Nowadays, Westerners practice all kinds of yoga. There is Bikram, or hot yoga, which is done in rooms heated to over 40℃. There is baby yoga in which children copy the stretching poses of their mothers.

Thinking:

What do you do when you are facing all sorts of stress?

作者：佚名

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