84 Asanas Introduced by Lord Shiva

84 asanas; the 17th century Hatha Ratnavali provides a different list of 84 asanas, describing some of them. In the 20th…

Asana for Assured Spiritual and Physical Benefits

An asana is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose, and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as…

Kriya Yoga 7 Steps Techniques and Benefits

Kriya Yoga (Sanskrit: क्रिया योग) is the active aspect of yoga. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.1 defines three types of kriya…

Hatha Yoga for Fine Tuning of Human Personality

Haṭha yoga is a branch of yoga. The Sanskrit word हठ haṭha literally means “force” and thus alludes to a system of physical techniques. In India,…

Jalandharnath: Incarnation and His Spiritual Journey

Jalandharnath was a saint. He is considered a contemporary of Gorakshanath. The temples of Jalandharnath are mainly in Rajasthan, Jalore,…

Lord Dattatreya: The Adi-Guru of Navnath Sampradaya

Lord Dattatreya (Sanskrit: दत्तात्रेय), Dattā or Dattaguru, is a paradigmatic Sannyasi (monk) and one of the lords of Yoga, venerated as a Hindu God. In Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh,…