When you think about it, yoga is a means to bring together the mind, body as well as spirit in perfect unison, and in fact, right from the earliest days of the beginnings of yoga to the present day yoga, these intentions have not changed – only been refined and improved. As a matter of fact, the history of yoga has a lot of tradition embodied in it and it is basically a system pertaining to the physical, mental as well as spiritual health and fitness of a practitioner that has its roots in the system devised in India that goes back many thousands of years. Thus, the history of yoga is rich not only in its tradition, but also in its effectiveness and it may be divided into four different periods that began with the pre-classical period which was followed by the classical period which gave way to the post-classical period and up to the present or modern period.
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