Yoga's History : Apr 4, 2007 12:42 PM

Yoga has its origins deep in pre-history and slowly evoled through the ancient tantric civilizations that were in existence more than 10,000 years ago throughout india and in many other parts of the would. In these ancient tantric times, the rishis finding inspiration and truth in nature, realized techniques to attain freedom from the burdens and attachmets of the world while still living withis in First, recongnition of the human limitations of body and mind was needed. Then methods to transcend these limitations in order to open consciousness into higher realms of reality were taught. These skills were then handed down by word of mouth from guru to pupil throughout the generations. Tantra, the name given to the sacred books of tantrism, stems from tan oti, In tantric philosophy, the body is regared as the gateway to the inner temple of the divine. Thus the body and bodily existence was recognized on a manifest level as a wonderful instrument through which the expansion of the unmanifest consciousness and freedom of energy can be realized and nuited. The term YOGA emerged in writted sources over 4,000 years agoin the ancient Sanskrit hymns and poems of the tantras and later the Vedoa, which refer to ritualistic traditions folklore, esoteric practices and spiritual awakenings. These scriptures and considered to be sacred, as they were orighinally resealed to the rishis while they were in deep yogic states of meditaion.