How did you get to your yoga mat today?
Let’s go all the way back to the start, when the word ‘yoga’ was first mentioned in ancient texts over 5,000 years ago, in a set of books called the Vedas.
This large body of religious texts originated in ancient India, composed in Vedic Sanskrit. You may have already heard your yoga teacher refer to some poses in Sanskrit. For example: downward dog in its official name is Adho Mukha Shvanasana, or corpse pose is Savasana.
