Yoga:

Yoga:

The word "yoga" comes from a Sanskrit term that literally means "yoke" and, in Hinduism, implies harnessing oneself to God. However, contextually or with a qualifier (e.g., chakra, Chinese, Polarity, Taoist, or Tibetan), the word "yoga" often seems to mean simply "religious or quasireligious practice or group of practices." It is a Hodgepodge of dozens of religious and quasireligious systems and methods, many of which are health-related. A system of self-discipline physical exercises which helps you gain control of the senses, body and mind, using meditation for purifying one's soul. An ancient Indian philosophy and way of life originating in India. A Hindu school of thought or a system of contemplation aimed at achieving a state of perfect spiritual insight, enlightenment, and tranquility for affecting the union of the human soul with the Supreme Being.

 

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* Yoga from the verbal root yuj to yoke: - Is perhaps the most central concept in Ancient Indian religions.It first and foremost refers to the plethora of religious practices by which one can aim to escape samsara. In Ancient India it was understood as a transformation of the mind, a prerequisite to attaining liberation from earthly bonds. Currently the most popular form in the West is hatha yoga, a system of bodily exercises and postures (asana) initially intended to prepare the body for meditation. It is now generally practiced in the west as a fitness exercise.

* Yoga: * Abhyasa: * Asteya: * Dhyana in Hinduism: * Dhara: * Five Wisdoms: * Gyulu: * History of yoga: * Ida (yoga): * Inner peace: * Ishvarapranidhana: * Kaivalya: * Kriya: * Kundalini: * Lung (Tibetan Buddhism): * Mahasamadhi: * Malladihalli Sri Raghavendra Swamiji: * Mindstream: * Nadi (yoga): * Nibija: * Nirbija: * Niyama: * Pingala (yoga): * Prana: * Pratyahara: * Sahaja Yoga: * Samyama: * Samdhi: * Seven stages (Yogi): * Shaucha: * Siddhi: * Spiritual practice: * Svadhyaya: * Tapas (Sanskrit): * Trataka: * Trikona: * User:Lara bran/sandbox: * Vibhuti: * Vitakka: * Vital currents: * Yamas: * Yoga (disambiguation): * Yoga as exercise or alternative medicine: * Yoga in Daily Life: * Yoga piracy: * Yoga-darsana: * Yogic marriage:

* In the West, the Yoga: - Is most commonly understood as the physical exercises that are often practiced as an aid to healthy living. There are many different forms of yoga. Hatha yoga; the most widely practiced form of yoga in the Western world uses specific postures and breathing exercises. Yoga when used as a form of alternative medicine is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation, practiced for over 5,000 years.

Yoga is the third of the four successive stages (margas) of purification and enlightenment in Saiva Siddhanta--chariya, kriya, yoga and jnana. We can think of yoga as the joining of the atma with the paramatma. There are numerous means of joining the soul with God: In Ayurveda, yoga means union, and is a traditional system of healing the mind and body. It is believed that yoga cleanses the body of toxins, improving muscle tone and blood circulation. Useful for conditions such as anxiety, arthritis, headache, migraine, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, pregnancy, rheumatoid arthritis, and more.

* There are four yoga's: - The path of devotion; the path of knowledge and discrimination; the path of detached work, and the path of meditation.
Yoga for Busy People (YBP, Yoga for Busy People method): Form of hatha yoga expounded and endorsed by minister Dawn Groves. Purportedly, one learns with YBP how to "re-inhabit" one's body and develops a "childlike partnership" with it. Yoga Nutrition: Dietary method endorsed by Richard Hittleman, author of several books on yoga. Its theory holds that: (a) prana ("life-force") is absorbable from food and is its "real nourishment," and (b) eating too many indigestible, rich, "devitalized" foods allows gastric removal of "vital energies" from other parts of the body, including one's "mental and spiritual bodies." Yoga Therapy: 1. Field of practices that use yoga to treat mental and physical problems. 2. Psychotherapeutic variation of hatha yoga whose postulate is that disease is the cumulative lodging of "undigested experiences" in the "body/mind." Yogic Flying: An "aspect" of TM-Sidhi. Purportedly, it is a means of self-levitation whose effects include "bubbling bliss." Group practice allegedly promotes "harmonious trends" throughout a society. Yogic Neuromuscular Therapy: An alleged means of stabilizing the "mind body connection." This stabilization purportedly allows the connecting of the spirit and the "unified body and mind." Yagya: Vedic (Hindu) ceremony purportedly designed to engage at least one deity in promoting health and restoring "environmental balance." Yantra Yoga (Tibetan Yantra Yoga, Yantra Tibetan Yoga): Tibetan Buddhist variation of hatha yoga. The purported benefits of practicing Yantra Yoga include "balanced energy" and "spiritual development."

* Chakra - Is a Sanskrit term meaning circle or wheel. There is a wide literature on chakra models, philosophy, and lore that underpin many philosophical systems and spiritual energy practices, religious observance, and personal discipline. Theories on chakras fit within systems that link the human body and mind into a single unit, sometimes called the 'bodymind' (Sanskrit: namarupa). The philosophical theories and models of chakras as centers of energy were first codified in Ancient India.

* Chakra: * Ajna: * Anahata: * Bindu: * Manipura: * Muladhara: * Sahasrara: * Swadhisthana: * Vishuddha:

* Kriya Yoga: - Is described by its practitioners as the ancient Yoga system revived in modern times by Mahavatar Babaji through his disciple Lahiri Mahasaya, c 1861, and brought into widespread public awareness through Paramhansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi. The system consists of a number of levels of Pranayama based techniques that are intended to rapidly accelerate spiritual development and engender a profound state of tranquility and God-communion.

* Mudra (Sanskrit: "seal") - Is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism. While some mudras involve the entire body, most are performed with the hands and fingers. Mudra (Sanskrit) is a 'spiritual gesture' and energetic 'seal of authenticity' employed in the iconography and sadhana of Dharmic Traditions and Taoic Traditions; particularly those influenced by Tantra, Shinto and Shamanism.

* Yoga organizations: -* 3HO * Advance Party (religious movement) * Ananda Marga * Bihar Yoga Bharati * Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University * Gaiam * Global Mala Project * Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy * International Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship * International Yoga Federation * Santiniketan Park Association * Self-Realization Fellowship * Self-Realization Order * Shanti Mandir * Siddha Yoga * Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres * Talk:Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University/History of the Brahma Kumari Movement * Yogic Yang Spiral

* Yoga series: * Five Tibetan Rites * Surya Namaskar Origins * Surya Namaskara

* Yoga positions: * Asana: * List of yoga postures: * Adho Mukha Svanasana: * Backbend: * Bakasana: * Balasana: * Bandha: * Bhujangasana: * Chakrasana: * Dhanurasana: * Halasana: * Handstand: * Hanumanasana: * Hasta Uttanasana: * Lotus position: * Matsyasana: * Mula Bandha: * Paschimottanasana: * Salabhasana: * Sarvangasana: * Savasana: * Siddhasana: * Sirsasana: * Sukhasana: * Tadasana: * Trikonasana: * Urdhva Dhanurasana: * Ustrasana: * Uttanasana: * Utthita Trikonasana: * Vajrasana: * Viparita Karani: * Vrksasana: * Yoga Nidra: * Yoga squat:

* Pranayama (Sanskrit: praayama): - Is a Sanskrit word meaning "lengthening of the prana or breath". The word is composed of two Sanskrit words, Prana, life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath, and "ayama", to lengthen or extend. It is often translated as control of the life force (prana). When used as a technical term in yoga, it is often translated more specifically as "breath control". Literal translations include A. A. Macdonell's "suspension of breath" and I. K. Taimni's "regulation of breath"

* Anuloma pranayama: * Pratiloma ujjayi: * Reverse breathing: * Ujjayi breath:

* Sahaja Yoga: - Is a new religious movement founded by Nirmala Srivastava, more widely known as 'Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi' and affectionately as 'Mother' by her followers (Sahaja Yogis). The movement says that Sahaja Yoga uses a process of Kundalini awakening to produce Self Realization, experienced as a cool breeze and thoughtless awareness.

* Sahaja Yoga: * International Sahaja Public School: * Nirmala Srivastava:

* List of Yoga schools: * Agama Yoga: * Anusara Yoga: * Bihar School of Yoga: * Bihar Yoga Bharati: * Kripalu Center: * List of yoga schools: * Moksha Yoga: * Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training Course: * Yogabugs:

* Tantra: - Is a term used to describe a set of varied practices found in the religions and populations of northern India and the himalayas, which spread to the far east by the 10th Century.

* Aham (Kashmir Shaivism): * Ananda Marga: * Anuyoga: * Anda: * Completion stage: * Dakshinachara: * Ganachakra: * Generation stage: * Jivamala: * Kapala: * Kaula: * Kasmir saivism: * Lung (Tibetan Buddhism): * Mahamudra: * Mahasiddha: * Maithuna: * Panchamakara: * Prakasa: * Shaktipat: * Six Yogas of Naropa: * Svatantrya: * Tantra: * Neotantra: * Tantric sexuality: * Tantric shamanism: * The 36 tattvas: * Trika: * Trikona: * Tummo: * Vamachara: * Vijnana Bhairava: * Yab-Yum: * Yantra:

* Yoga styles: * Adams Approach: * Agni Yoga: * Ajapa: * Anahata Yoga: * Anuyoga: * Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga: * Bhakti yoga: * Bikram Yoga: * Brahman-Atman Yoga: * Cardiac yoga: * Chair Yoga: * Dahn yoga: * Dragon yoga: * Dream yoga: * Hatha yoga: * Integral yoga: * Ishta Yoga: * Iyengar Yoga: * Jnana yoga: * Karma Yoga: * Kilo lani: * Krishnamacharya's yoga: * Kriya Yoga: * Kum Nye: * Kundalini yoga: * Laughter Yoga: * Laya yoga: * Mahayoga: * Naked yoga: * Natya Yoga: * PranaVayu Yoga: * Pranava yoga: * Raja Yoga: * Sam?patti: * Satyananda Yoga: * Siva Yoga: * Sivananda Yoga: * Six Lokas: * Surat Shabd Yoga: * Swara yoga: * Taoist yoga: * Ten Body Yoga: * Trul khor: * Vedanta: * Viniyoga: * Vinyasa: * Yin Yoga: * Yoga Chi Gung: * Yoga For Indie Rockers: * Yoga Nidra: * Yoga of Synthesis:

* Yogis are males who practice, or are mastered in, yoga. * Yogini is the term used for female yogins.

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