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  2. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

  3. Ashtanga vinyasa yoga - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga vinyasa yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of classical Indian (hatha) yoga. [1] Jois claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya .

  4. Iyengar Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Iyengar Yoga , named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar , and described in his bestselling [ 1 ] 1966 book Light on Yoga , is a form of yoga as exercise that has an emphasis on detail, precision and alignment in the performance of yoga postures ( asanas ).

  5. Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Yoga is a cognate of the English word "yoke," since both are derived from an Indo-European root. [27] According to Mikel Burley , the first use of the root of the word "yoga" is in hymn 5.81.1 of the Rigveda , a dedication to the rising Sun-god, where it has been interpreted as "yoke" or "control".

  6. Ashtanga - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga), the eight limbs of yoga as defined by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras; Raja yoga, Vivekananda's popularisation of Ashtanga Yoga; Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, a style of asana-based modern yoga founded and popularized by K. Pattabhi Jois; Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine, divided into eight limbs

  7. Ashtanga Namaskara - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga Namaskara. Ashtanga Namaskara (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्ग नमस्कार), Ashtanga Dandavat Pranam [1] (अष्टाङ्ग दण्डवत् प्रणाम्), Eight Limbed pose, Caterpillar pose, [2] or Chest, Knees and Chin pose is an asana sometimes used in the Surya Namaskar sequence in modern yoga as exercise, where the body is balanced on eight ...

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  9. Hatha yoga - Wikipedia

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    Yoga as exercise has spread in different branded forms such as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Bikram Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Sivananda Yoga. Yoga as exercise, of the type seen in the West, has been greatly influenced by Swami Kuvalayananda and his student Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who taught from 1924 until his death in 1989.