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2. An Introduction to Yoga - Wikipedia

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   An introduction to Yoga has been translated into various languages such as German, Spanish or Portuguese and her work is cited in over 40 articles and books. Her work is being quoted in relation to yoga, for example on her contribution to presenting yoga as a serious, scientific subject rather than esoteric practice. [ 15 ]

3. List of asanas - Wikipedia

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   An asana (Sanskrit: आसन, IAST: āsana) is a body posture, used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga. [1] The term is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'seat'. While many of the oldest mentioned asanas are indeed seated postures for meditation , asanas may be standing , seated, arm-balances, twists, inversions, forward bends ...

4. Paramahansa Yogananda - Wikipedia

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   An ancient spiritual practice, Kriya Yoga is "union (yoga) with the Infinite through a certain action or rite (kriya). The Sanskrit root of kriya is kri , to do, to act and react." Kriya Yoga was passed down through Yogananda's spiritual lineage: Mahavatar Babaji taught the Kriya technique to Lahiri Mahasaya , who taught it to his disciple ...

5. Adiyogi Shiva bust - Wikipedia

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   To mark the unveiling of the statue, the song "Adiyogi – The Source of Yoga" was released by the Isha Foundation, sung by Kailash Kher, with lyrics by Prasoon Joshi. [ 9 ] Another 6.4-metre (21 ft) statue of Adiyogi was unveiled in Tennessee , US in 2015 by the Isha Foundation, as part of a 2,800 m 2 (30,000 sq ft) yoga studio.

6. Light on Yoga - Wikipedia

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   Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika (Sanskrit: योग दीपिका, "Yoga Dīpikā") is a 1966 book on the Iyengar Yoga style of modern yoga as exercise by B. K. S. Iyengar, first published in English. It describes more than 200 yoga postures or asanas, and is illustrated with some 600 monochrome photographs of Iyengar demonstrating these.

7. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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   Adi Shankara, in his commentary on Yoga Sutras, distinguishes Dhyana from Dharana, by explaining Dhyana as the yoga state when there is only the "stream of continuous thought about the object, uninterrupted by other thoughts of different kind for the same object"; Dharana, states Shankara, is focussed on one object, but aware of its many ...