sometimes i go to yoga classes.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Yoga (; Sanskrit, \u092f\u094b\u0917\u0903 Listen) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India. There is a broad variety of yoga schools, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Among the most well-known types of yoga are Hatha yoga and R\u0101ja yoga. The origins of yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions; it is mentioned in the Rigveda, but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in ancient India's ascetic and \u015brama\u1e47a movements. The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads. The \"Yoga Sutras of Patanjali\" date from the first half of the 1st millennium CE, but only gained prominence in the West in the 20th century. Hatha yoga texts emerged around the 11th century with origins in tantra. Yoga gurus from India later introduced yoga to the West, following the success of Swami Vivekananda in the late 19th and early 20th century. In the 1980s, yoga became popular as a system of physical exercise across the Western world. Yoga in Indian traditions, however, is more than physical exercise; it has a meditative and spiritual core.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I just tried Yoga for the first time, i found out that i am not flexible at all haha, have you ever tried it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "No, and don't intend to - I can hurt myself in so many ways without it. That said, I should like it as it apparently originated in India, which is where my uncle comes from."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I did not know it originated there, i bet it was a long time ago, do you happen to know when people started to do yoga?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There's a lot of speculation as to its origins, but it's thought it developed around the 6th and 5th centuries BCE in ancient India."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, that is old, was it connected to religion in any way, or just a form of excercise?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It was, and probably still is, practiced in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Yoga gurus from India introduced it to the West in the late 19th century."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wonder why they waited for so long before introducing it to the west, was there a reason for it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Don't know. It could be because yoga in India is more than just physical exercise, with a meditative and spiritual side to it. In the West it seems to be used mainly for exercise."}]