When was the spiritual and physical discipline of Yoga first created?

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'Although Yoga is said to be as old as civilization, there is no physical evidence to support this claim. Earliest archaeological evidence of Yoga's existence could be found in stone seals which depict figures of Yoga Poses. The stone seals place Yoga's existence around 3000 B.C. Scholars, however, have a reason to believe that Yoga existed long before that and traced its beginnings in Stone Age Shamanism.' http://www.abc-of-yoga.com/beginnersguide/yogahistory.asp 'Yoga derives from prehistoric roots, and develops out of Ancient Indian asceticism (tapas). Yoga as a Hindu philosophy ("darshana") is first expounded in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. This earliest school of Yoga retrospectively came to be known by the retronym Raja Yoga to distinguish it from later schools.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yoga 'The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a foundational text of Yoga. It forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India's Mauryan period. ... Radhakrishnan and Moore attribute the text to Patanjali, dating it as 2nd century BCE.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras Feb 04 10, 4:55 AM