Some people practice yoga to feel relaxed and get rid of stress and anxiety, whether with their friends in a gym or alone at home, but some do not know the origin of this sport and others may believe that its origin is Pharaonic and others believe that its origin is Indian, but what is the truth?

The history of yoga dates back to five thousand years, and is associated with the Hindu religion, and it is one of the six systems of Indian philosophy. Hindus believe in the existence of a god known as Brahman, and yoga is considered as a means of uniting with this god, or uniting with the universe.

Some Hindus believe that the inventor of yoga is the god “Shiva”, who invented it when he was alone on an island..

On the other hand, the American researcher of African descent, Mwata Ashby, believes that yoga is originally an Egyptian sport, and he referred in his book “Egyptian Yoga” to the inscriptions that were discovered on a number of walls of the Pharaonic temples, which depict a number of movements similar to the movements of practicing yoga today..

Yoga-like movement

Despite this, the yoga that is known now takes on a complete Indian character, after undergoing some changes, and “Hatha Yoga” is the form now known and practiced by many in the world, and this form combines some of the stages of the eight stages of yoga, to achieve psychological and physical benefits. At the same time.

Laughter Yoga

Yoga spread all over the world, whether in European countries and the United States of America, at the beginning of the twentieth century, and then spread after that in the countries of the East, and with the passage of time this exercise became a global day, which was started by Samira Redsi, a yoga teacher living in Berlin, Germany, And who said that the goal of establishing the International Day of Yoga is to harness the power of yogis around the world to help victims of human rights violations, and the idea came to her spontaneously when she was drinking cappuccino one day.

A picture of a temple

Soon, Samira shared her dream with the help of her friend and fellow yoga teacher, Bjorn Werish, and they began to take action to make International Yoga Day a reality, which is on February 22 every year, and others celebrate it on June 21, according to the “” website.days of the year“”.