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Yoga dates back to 2700 B.C. of the Indus Saraswati Valley civilization.
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Modern meditation practices are generally attributed to Buddhism in India. Meditation's long and widespread history suggests that societies and religions around the world came to meditation as an important contributor to their belief systems and well-being
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The earliest documented records that mentioned meditation involved Vedantism, which is a Hindu tradition in India, around 1500 BCE. -
Swami Vivekananda was the first Person to Bring Yoga to America. “In America is the place, the people, the opportunity for everything new,” wrote Swami Vivekananda before he left India in 1893.
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Starting in the early-1960s, several Americans such as Richard Hittleman and Lilias Folan used television to present approachable and practical forms of yoga to a wide audience.
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With its benefits for immunity and lung health, yoga has become an exercise of the first choice for many people.
