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Sanskrit yoga is 'yoking, joining', from the same Indo-European root as English yoke and Latin iugum; it came to mean disciplines that yoke the mind and body. Buddhist translators carried it to China as yújiā; Vivekananda and the 20th-century fitness boom carried it everywhere else.

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