Kundalini yoga derives from kundalini, defined in Vedanta (Hinduism) as energy. It lies dormant at the base of the spine until…
Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (अष्टांग विनयसा योग) is a style of yoga as exercise popularized by K. Pattabhi Jois during the…
Samadhi (समाधि), in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness. In the yogic traditions and the Buddhist commentarial tradition on which the Burmese Vipassana movement and…
Pranayama is the yogic practice of focusing on the breath. In Sanskrit, prana means “vital life force”, and Yama means to gain control. In yoga, breath…