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 am training to be a yoga instructor.  I love it.  Do you do it yourself?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I have actually never tried it, but I know it is more than just physical exercise. What are its benefits?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "There are so many! Increased flexibility, muscle strength and tone, Improved respiration, energy and vitality, weight reduction, cardio health,  the list just goes on..."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh wow, so it sounds like more than just a trend! I know physical exercise can be really valuable. Do you think I should give Yoga a try?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes definitely.  Funnily I wasnt keen at the beginning, my friend convinced or more forced me as she wanted company but I really enjoyed it and here I am 5 years later actually training to teach it myself. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Wow, that's quite a transition! I wonder if I have any friends who might introduce me to it; I would guess trying it with someone you know is probably a great way to learn about it. Would you agree?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes thats right.  For me it has become such a social thing too.  I get to catch up with the girls each week and with busy lives and families it isnt easy but we always find time for our yoga and a starbucks afterwards of course!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hahaha, that sounds about right. It sounds like a great way to keep in touch with people then! I think you've opened my mind up to the topic. Where can I learn more about Yoga?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Get on to google and find out where there are classes near you and just take it from there.  Goodluck!!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Thanks so much! ^.^"}]