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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 ...
Hatha yoga (/ ˈ h ʌ t ə, ˈ h ɑː t ə /; IAST: Haṭha-yoga) [2] is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy. The Sanskrit word हठ haṭha literally means "force", alluding to a system of physical techniques.
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.
'World Conference on Scientific Yoga', 1970. From left: Swami Satchidananda, B.K.S. Iyengar, Amrit Desai, Kumar Swami, Dhirendra Brahmachari, and Dr B.I. Atreya In the 19th century, the Bengali physician N. C. Paul began the study of the physiology of yoga with his 1851 book Treatise on Yoga Philosophy, noting that yoga can raise carbon dioxide levels in the blood (hypercapnia).
The Joga Pradīpikā (जोगप्रदीपिका, "A Small Light on Yoga") is a hatha yoga text by Ramanandi Jayatarama written in 1737 in a mixture of ...
The other two paths are jnana yoga and karma yoga. Jnana yoga is the path of wisdom where the individual pursues knowledge and introspective self-understanding as spiritual practice, and karma yoga is the path of virtuous action (karma) where one acts without expecting rewards or consequences, also known as nishkama karma .
This category is for Yoga styles ie. different systems, traditions, or schools of thought and practice. For Yoga schools (institutions) dedicated to teaching Yoga, see Category:Yoga schools . Subcategories