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There isn’t a simple answer for the age of yoga. The first hint of yoga was recorded on stone tablets that are 3,500-5,000 years old. The tablets were found in eastern Pakistan, in the ruins of the ancient city of Harappa. A figure in a seated meditation pose is carved into the tablet.This is widely considered to be the first evidence of yogic practices. These elements reflect yoga’s origin as a philosophy. The ancient yogic lifestyle was a variety of physical, mental, and spiritual practices. Around this time, the Rig Veda was written–the first text to contain the word yoga.Traces of modern yoga first appeared in texts like the Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. The sage Patanjali is thought to have lived about 2,200 years ago, but no one knows for sure. Elements of modern yoga, like breathwork and mindfulness, are part of the Yoga Sutras.
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Practice of yoga is believed to be have started with very dawn of civilization in India.The science of yoga has its origins of thousand of years ago and long before first religion and belief system were born.Yoga works on level of body,mind,emotions and energy.The classification of yoga is as under.
1.Karma Yoga relate to body.
2.Bhakti yoga relate to Emotions
3.Gyana yoga relate to mind.
5.Kriya yoga relate to energy.
Shiva is first guru of yoga and he is yogi and adiyogi.
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Historical evidences of the existence of Yoga were seen in the pre-Vedic period (2700 B.C.), and thereafter till Patanjali’s period. The main sources, from which we get the information about Yoga practices and the related literature during this period, are available in Vedas (4), Upanishads(108), Smritis, teachings of Buddhism, Jainism, Panini, Epics (2), Puranas (18) etc.
Tentatively, the period between 500 BC - 800 A.D. is considered as the Classical period which is also considered as the most fertile and prominent period in the history and development of Yoga. During this period, commentaries of Vyasa on Yoga Sutras and Bhagawadgita etc
Yoga is an ancient science, which is supposed to be propounded by Hiranyagarbha. You can find this in the ancient Vedic literature. Also Adiyogi or Shiva is supposed to be first yogi, who is also the first teacher who taught yoga to seven deciples, or the saptarishi and his wife Parvati. But today we can find evidence about yoga upto 5000 years ago, which is the period of Maharishi Patanjali, where he wrote the Yoga Sutra.
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