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Yoga in 2018

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image @themindsjournal.com These days, I find myself wondering what would the old Hindus that wrote the Vedas think about how people have been practising yoga nowadays.  I’ve seen beautiful things but also some “bizarre stuff” in the social media world. The last new way to do yoga I saw that shocked me was a class that mixed yoga with guns! I had a feeling that after seeing yoga with goats I would have seen it all, but apparently, I was wrong. Yoga as philosophy comes from the oldest Hindu sacred texts called 'The Vedas'. They are written in Sanskrit and originated in ancient India. They were written down thousands of years ago, but contain knowledge and wisdom that originated even long before then, passed down orally. The Sanskrit word, Veda, means "knowledge."  Also, they are considered to be the direct word of the Divine.   Yoga is simple. When I mean simple, I say you have to show up on your mat with consistency and frequency. Start from where you are