i am a yoga instructor.
[{"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 started getting into yoga!  Do you participate in it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I prefer the Hatha type of yoga over Raja.  Do you have a preference?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is Hatha yoga?  I have never heard of it!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hatha yoga is a branch that emphasizes physical exercises to master the body and mind."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting!  An what exactly is Raja yoga?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You may have heard of it being referred as \"royal yoga\" or \"classical yoga.\""}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am assuming that is the type of yoga with all the different stretching poses, right?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think that style of yoga is called Yin yoga.  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh!  There are so many different types.  I had no idea!  How long has yoga been practiced?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Gosh, I think the origins of yoga date back to the sixth and fifth centuries in ancient India."}]