Let's face it: a lot of people have a severe misunderstanding of yoga. For every one person who knows how effective yoga can be in maintaining a positive outlook, improving posture and digestion, staying in good health, and maintaining a high level energy just to get you through the day, there are probably a dozen skeptics who think it is all just new age baloney yoga poses for weight loss belly . Maybe we can't convince everybody that yoga is much more than ineffective hippie stuff, but if we can summarize the concept of the traditional yoga culture real quick, it might just be a start. A Brief History of Yoga It's not clear exactly when the practice of Yoga first began in India, but it may have been as early as 3300 BC. There are five major branches in yoga: Raja, Hatha, Jnana, Bhakti and Karma, but Hatha yoga is probably the only one we really need to discuss in relation to health and fitness. Yogi Swatmarama, a fifteenth century Indian sage, developed Hatha yoga as a w...
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