Yoga has various sources. One is Hua Tuo, who made up a play about five animals, namely, tigers, deer, bears, apes and birds. Observing nature, he found that this kind of animal can be treated after illness and imitate animals to exercise.
Second, many people in India practice in the Himalayas, imitating animals and slowly adjusting their bodies. We will see that about two-thirds of the movements in yoga are imitations of animals, such as the postures of tigers, cats, eagles and cobras. Of course, there are also some methods to regulate breathing by imitating animals, and there are also methods to regulate breathing in Wuqinxi.
The earliest yoga was a way for some practitioners to practice in the mountains. With the development of society, there was a man named Ramakrishna, who emphasized the need to popularize yoga. He is called the pioneer of modern yoga.
There is a man named Debate and Happiness. He is called the first person who brought yoga to the western world. Going to America by boat to spread yoga has a great influence on the world. There is a debating yoga university in India, which is the only university that the Indian government can award a doctorate in yoga. There was a man named Krishnamacha, known as the father of modern yoga, who revived hatha yoga and organized it into a system.
In 1950s and 1960s, hospitals were overcrowded. Sivananda combined Ayurveda with yoga, advocated physiotherapy yoga, and gradually formed a new yoga school called Sivananda Yoga. Kuvalleyan Nanda, who has scientifically proved the influence of yoga on physiology and psychology, is considered as the father of scientific yoga.
Later, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna and other stars used some yoga shapes in concerts and magazines to make yoga known to the public, so yoga first developed in the United States.
The whole development of yoga is the practice method of ancient Indians, and it has become very fashionable and diversified, with special yoga magazines, like people constantly conveying the beauty of yoga.