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Ancient texts on Yoga, up to around 1000 AD, excluding Medieval texts such as those on Hatha yoga. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The asana section in all the manuscripts of the Yogacintamani describes 34 asanas including kukkutasana, mayurasana, and siddhasana, while handwritten annotations in the Ujjain manuscript and variations in other manuscripts add another 84, mentioning most of the non-standing asanas used in modern postural yoga, including forward bends like paschimottanasana, backbends such as ustrasana, twists ...
The Dattātreyayogaśāstra is the first text to describe and teach yoga as having three types, namely mantra yoga, laya yoga, and hatha yoga. All three lead to samadhi , the goal of raja yoga . Mantra yoga consists simply of repeating mantras until powers ( siddhis ) are obtained.
The Haṭha Ratnāvalī is a Haṭha yoga text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa. [1] It states (1.17-18) that asanas , breath retentions , and seals assist in Haṭha yoga. [ 2 ] It mentions 8 purifications ( shatkarmas ), criticising the Hatha Yoga Pradipika for only describing 6 of these.
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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 ...
The Vasishtha Samhita shares many verses with the Yoga Yajnavalkya, some of which originate in the earlier Padma Samhita. [ 2 ] The text, ascribed to the earlier sage Vasishtha , was compiled by an unknown author of the Vaishnavite Shakta sect.
The text is notable for its discussion of sexual fluids over verses 55 to 64, calling it bindu of two colors: Shukla (pale white, male) and Rajas (red, female). [24] The text asserts that both have creative powers, the Shukla is Brahman (universal principle) and the Rajas is the Shakti (energy, power). [ 24 ]