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The first yoga pose was “I’m avoiding my problems.” It remains popular.

✗ FAKE
Yoga originated in ancient India as a spiritual and physical discipline, and the earliest practices are described in texts like the Yoga Sutras. The claim about a first pose is a joke.

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