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Sculpture of the 12 asanas of one form of the Sun Salutation [d] in Indira Gandhi Airport, Delhi [44] (figures sculpted by Nikhil Bhandari) The founder of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga , K. Pattabhi Jois , stated that "There is no Ashtanga yoga without Surya Namaskara, which is the ultimate salutation to the Sun god."
Women in an outdoor yoga community class, Texas, 2010. Yoga as exercise is a physical activity consisting mainly of postures, often connected by flowing sequences, sometimes accompanied by breathing exercises, and frequently ending with relaxation lying down or meditation. Yoga in this form has become familiar across the world, especially in ...
The Gita consists of 18 chapters and 700 shlokas (verses); [154] each chapter is named for a different form of yoga. [154] [155] [156] Some scholars divide the Gita into three sections; the first six chapters (280 shlokas) deal with karma yoga, the middle six (209 shlokas) with bhakti yoga, and the last six (211 shlokas) with jnana yoga ...
Everything you need to know about yoga, including the best yoga poses for beginners at home.
Statue of Patañjali, its traditional snake form indicating kundalini or an incarnation of Shesha. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtra) is a compilation "from a variety of sources" [1] of Sanskrit sutras on the practice of yoga – 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to others, including BKS Iyengar).
The Narada Bhakti Sutra (IAST: Nārada Bhakti Sūtra) is a well known sutra venerated within the traditions of Hinduism, reportedly spoken by the famous sage, Narada.The text details the process of devotion (), or Bhakti yoga and is thus of particular importance to many of the Bhakti movements within Hinduism.
Karma yoga, bhakti yoga and jnana yoga can also be described as sadhana; constant efforts to achieve maximum level of perfection in all streams of day-to-day life can be described as Sadhana. [ 5 ] Sādhanā can also refer to a tantric liturgy or liturgical manual, that is, the instructions to carry out a certain practice.
The Joga Pradīpikā (जोगप्रदीपिका, "A Small Light on Yoga") is a hatha yoga text by Ramanandi Jayatarama written in 1737 in a mixture of ...