Earth — Our Shared Home
The story of yoga
Read how yoga went from India to the whole world.
In your book, Our Wondrous World (Chapter 10), the second story is 'Yoga — India's Gift to the World!'.
Since ancient times, people in India have practised yoga to keep their bodies healthy and their minds peaceful. It was a way to live in harmony with oneself and with nature. Yoga has been practised in India for more than 3,000 years!
As time went on, travellers, scholars and teachers from India shared yoga with the world. Slowly, people in other countries began to learn and practise it too. Today, yoga is practised in almost every country.
In 2014, the United Nations declared 21 June the International Day of Yoga. On that day, millions of people around the world do yoga together. A practice that began in India is now loved all over the world.
Practise this lesson
Questions that get harder as you improve, a Tutor that helps without giving the answer away, and progress you can see. Free for every learner.
No account, no email address. Opens the real product.