2 Yoga in a nutshell
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The formative years of Yoga were unorganized and dealt more with karmic laws of spirituality. Ancient yoga masters like the great sage Patanjali deviated from ancient Vedic text and advocated Yoga more as a metaphysical entity, where the practice could well rid the body and mind of the material obstacles that bind humans to their material existence. Yoga was then regarded as a physical pathway to a developed mental plane of enlightenment. It was this style of yoga that was developed to what is now known in the west as Hatha yoga.
It may all seem too heavy to digest but a more practical explanation of yoga would be physical exercises to cleanse the body of negativity such as stress, tension, hypertension, anxiety and anger. In short exercises of deep breathing calms the mind. What results is the real you as you were meant to be, a happy calm and composed person free from the attachment of materialism and negative emotions expressed by lack of them.
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