The History of Yoga

Swami Vivekananda and the 1893 Chicago "TED-Talk."

No one seems to know just how old yoga actually is. Yoga teachers are known to fling off the “it’s 5,000 years old!” declaration as a source of pride - as well they should. However old it may be, America’s first yoga teachers arrived at New York from India close to the turn of the twentieth century. Now, ashrams litter the Upstate NY landscape like 7-El…