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2. List of yoga schools - Wikipedia

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   India and other Asian countries are home to thousands of yoga schools founded over the last century to teach yoga as exercise, which unlike all earlier forms consists in large part of asanas. Below are some and their style of yoga. 1948: Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga - Sri K. Pattabhi Jois [17] 1963: Bihar School of Yoga - Swami Satyananda Saraswati [18]

3. Yogendra - Wikipedia

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   Manibhai Haribhai Desai (1897–1989), known as (Shri) Yogendra was an Indian yoga guru, [2] author, poet, researcher [3] and was one of the important figures in the modern revival and transformation of hatha yoga, both in India and United States.

4. Nigamananda Paramahansa - Wikipedia

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   In this chart he placed Sri Krishna and Sri Radha (or the Guru-गुरु and Yogamaya-योगमाया) in the transition between the non qualified (Nirguna) Brahman (निर्गुण ब्रह्म) [92] and qualified (Saguna) Brahman (सगुण ब्रह्म), [93] [94] which he called Nitya or Bhavaloka (भाव ...

5. Gurus of Modern Yoga - Wikipedia

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   Gurus of Modern Yoga is an edited 2014 collection of essays on some of the gurus (leaders) of modern yoga by the yoga scholars Mark Singleton and Ellen Goldberg. [1]The book has been broadly welcomed by critics as a necessary introduction to some of these figures, though some of them have regretted the book's lack of an evaluation of recent research on the place of the guru in modern yoga, or ...

6. Paramahamsa Madhavdas - Wikipedia

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   Paramahamsa Madhavdasji or Paramahamsa Madhavdas (1798–1921) was an Indian yogi, yoga guru and Hindu monk in the 19th century. He was born in 1798 in Bengal. [1] He was initiated as a sadhu (monk) and entered the order of Vaishnavism. He traveled across India on foot for nearly 35 years for knowledge of the practice of yoga. [2]

7. Modern yoga gurus - Wikipedia

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   The guru–shishya tradition involved a long-term, one-to-one relationship between master and pupil. [3] Watercolour, Punjab Hills, India, 1740. Before the creation of modern yoga, hatha yoga was practised in secret by solitary, ascetic yogins, learning the tradition as a long-term pupil or shishya apprenticed to their master or guru.

8. Kaula (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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   Kaula functions as a form of guru yoga, where the disciple's only essential practice is to surrender himself to his guru, accepting the spiritual impulse bestowed upon him by his master. Disciples eminently open towards their guru's spiritual influence are named spiritual sons and held to know the highest state of consciousness [ 24 ] by their ...

9. Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri - Wikipedia

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   Sri Yukteswar spent a great deal of time in the next several years in the company of his guru, often visiting Lahiri Mahasaya in Benares. In 1894, while attending the Kumbha Mela in Allahabad, he met the guru of Lahiri Mahasaya, Mahavatar Babaji , [ 12 ] [ 13 ] who asked Sri Yukteswar to write a book comparing Hindu scriptures and the Christian ...