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": "Yoga is my passion.  I teach it to the people of my town and they've been very receptive."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's a really great practice for spirituality, and also the physical and mental. It actually originated in ancient India."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, it has religious links, but I tell most of my students that it's mainly for low impact exercise.  I'm not running a church here, heh."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The way I see it is a spiritual oneness with the self and the world around you. Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism all revolve around that thought in relation to yoga."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah I had a few students get really into the spirutal part of it and on became a Buddhist.  I wonder if he was heading that way already, and yoga helped him."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's pretty cool. It's amazing how long it has been around. They found Hatha yoga texts from around the 11th century."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That long, eh?  I used to make a pretty good money teaching yoga, but it got way more popualr and usddenly I have a lot of competition."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah, it's been on an upward popular trend since the 1980s and I don't see it slowing down any time soon in the Western World."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think we'll hit peak Yoga sooner than later though, once a new popualr exercise emerges.  then I can be left to study and teach yoga to true adherents who aren't chasing fads."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My own personal belief is that it is here to stay because of the spiritual component, but in India they see it as meditative as well."}]