Yoga Tree Castro & Yoga Tree Potrero

- not specified -

10:00 - 17:00

Central Park, E 84th St, New York

Free of charge

n truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same posture, the same sequence, the same meditation with a different intention takes on an entirely new meaning and will have entirely different outcomes.

The origins of Yoga have been speculated to date back to pre-Vedic Indian traditions, but most likely developed around the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, in ancient India’s ascetic circles, which are also credited with the early sramana movements. The chronology of earliest texts describing yoga-practices is unclear, varyingly credited to Hindu Upanishads and Buddhist Pāli Canon, probably of third century BCE or later. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali date from the first half of the 1st millennium CE, but only gained prominence in the 20th century.

Hatha yoga texts emerged around 11th century CE, and in its origins was related to Tantrism.

Menla Mountain Retreat Center: Catskills

read next