Yoga Feeling tired? Under too much stress? No time to exercise? Well, you may want to 1 It's what more and more people have been turning to 2 of modern life. In fact , yoga has become so popular in recent years that it's easy to 3 the fact that it is one of humankind's oldest activities. Scholars think that yoga 4 the methods used by shamans of the Indus Valley, more than 5,000 years ago. Shamans were the holy men of early human civilization. Their role in society was to 5 the spirit world to find solutions to problems facing their people. Over time, these shamans developed a system of 6 to expand their consciousness in the hope of better understanding the problems of 7 . These exercises 8 modern yoga. For thousands of years yoga was 9 . Yoga exercises were 10 of the three Indian religions: 11 . In a strict sense, yoga is not a religion; it is a method that can be used by anyone to 12 their own religious or non-religious goals. Siddhartha, the 13 of Buddhism, practiced yogic meditation, which is still a central part of Buddhism today. Yoga was almost 14 to the West until the 1960s. Since then yoga's popularity keeps growing. Across the United States, there are so many people who want to learn yoga that yoga schools are having difficulty 15 . Nowadays, Westerners practice all kinds of yoga. There is hot yoga done in rooms 16 to over 40 degrees centigrade. There is baby yoga in which infants copy 17 of their mothers. There are even yoga classes for people 18 ! Whatever form it may take, people today are starting to look at yoga as 19 . It ’ s obvious that 20 as it was for solving the problems 5,000 years ago.