Tree of Life: The ROOTS

Tree of Life: The ROOTS

The ancient science of Yoga has been discovered by archeologists in multiple ancient civilizations. The geographic vastness in which some of these civilizations existed apart from each other is so amazing! Somehow they all practiced a form of yoga. This includes ancient India, China, Tibet, and also Mayan cultures all the way on the South American continent - Oceans away from Asia. They each created a system of yoga and passed down the practice from teacher to student from generation to generation.

The Indus River Valley civilization was the first, however, to fully develop the mind/body/spirit science and preserve it into the 21st century. The birth date of yoga is between 3,000 - 1,900 B.C.

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Science is a Source of Spirituality

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."

-Carl Sagan