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A number of yoga texts, such as the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads, have borrowed from (or frequently refer to) the Yoga Yajnavalkya. [197] It discusses eight yoga asanas (Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura), [198] a number of breathing exercises for body cleansing, [199] and ...
Yoga asanas were brought to America by the yoga teacher Yogendra. [27] [44] He founded a branch of The Yoga Institute in New York state in 1919, [45] [46] starting to make Haṭha yoga acceptable, seeking scientific evidence for its health benefits, [47] and writing books such as his 1928 Yoga Asanas Simplified [48] and his 1931 Yoga Personal ...
Yoga (Sanskrit: योग), a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India Yoga (disambiguation) Yog-Sothoth, a fictional entity in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft; Yogh, Middle English letter ȝ; Yogi (disambiguation) Jog (disambiguation)
Yin Yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga (as exercise), incorporating principles of traditional Chinese medicine, with asanas (postures) that are held for longer periods of time than in other yoga styles. Advanced practitioners may stay in one asana for five minutes or more.
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 ...
Yoga as exercise is a practice mainly of asanas (postures), derived from medieval hatha yoga, often without its goals and most of its other practices such as shatkarmas and mudras. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
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