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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.
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 text is traditionally attributed to Yajnavalkya, a revered Vedic sage in Hinduism.He is estimated to have lived in around the 8th century BCE, [3] and is associated with several other major ancient texts in Sanskrit, namely the Shukla Yajurveda, the Shatapatha Brahmana, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the Dharmasastra named Yājñavalkya Smṛti, Vriddha Yajnavalkya, and Brihad Yajnavalkya. [4]
A classic definition of yoga in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras 1.2 and 1.3, [19] [27] [66] [67] defines yoga as "the stilling of the movements of the mind," and recognises Purusha, the witness-consciousness, as different from Prakriti, mind and matter. [27] [66] [67] [h] According to Larson, in the context of the Yoga Sutras, yoga has two meanings ...
The Gorakṣaśataka is one of the first texts that teaches Haṭha yoga's physical methods, without using the name. [3] The first verse states that the text is for ascetics who had renounced ordinary life to attain liberation. [1] The text explains how to control the breath in pranayama, [3] using novel techniques such as sūryabhedana, "the ...
His The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga (1960) was the first major illustrated guide, showing and describing some 90 yoga asanas and numerous variations in 146 monochrome plates, many of them full-page. [9] [29] [30] Indra Devi's 1959 Yoga for Americans encouraged women to practise at home.
Roots of Yoga is a 2017 book of commentary and translations from over 100 ancient and medieval yoga texts, mainly written in Sanskrit but including several other languages, many not previously published, about the origins of yoga including practices such as āsana, mantra, and meditation, by the scholar-practitioners James Mallinson and Mark Singleton.
The Vimanarcanakalpa is a 10th to 11th century prose text [1] [2] on Hatha yoga, attributed to the sage Marichi. [3] It states that yoga is the union of the individual with the supreme self. [4] It is one of the earliest texts to describe a non-seated asana and to call such postures asanas (the term originally and literally meaning a seat ...