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Yoga Types, Styles, and Classification | An Overview
Over time, there have been many endeavors to categorize Yoga in types and styles, but until today there’s no authoritative classification, and proba [ ... ]

Yoga Props | Purpose, Applications, and Benefits
A prop is a device or tool used as a temporary support, or to keep something in position. The props used in Yoga include a whole range of objects, suc [ ... ]

Dharana in Yoga | Single-Pointed Concentration
Dharana in Yoga is about mastering single-pointed concentration, and the sixth step of the Yogic practice as described in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. I [ ... ]

What is Chair Yoga? | Concepts, Goals, and Health Benefits
Chair Yoga is a type of Yoga as Therapy developed by Lakshmi Voelker-Binder in 1982. It was created as a way to adapt Yoga postures and exercises, mak [ ... ]

SKY Yoga | Simplified Kundalini Yoga by Vethathiri Maharishi
Simplified Kundalini Yoga, also known as SKY Yoga, is a Yoga system founded by Shri Vethathiri Maharishi (1911–2006). It’s a holistic system c [ ... ]

Zen Yoga | Benefits, Techniques, and Goals
Zen Yoga is a general term used to refer to Yoga modalities that blend Ancient Indian Yoga and Zen Buddhism practices. The Zen Yoga practice can inclu [ ... ]

Nidra Yoga | The Yogic Sleep
Nidra Yoga (or Yoga Nidra) is an ancient type of Indian Yoga that induces a relaxing, meditative state of consciousness between waking and sleeping. T [ ... ]

Anahata Yoga | Opening the Heart Chakra
Anahata Yoga (or Heart Yoga) was developed by Ana Costa, a Brazilian born Yoga teacher. The modality was created in 2001, and is a combination of Hath [ ... ]

Yoga Goals and Health Benefits | Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Exercises
Yoga is an ancient Indian practice of movement, breathing, physical, mental and spiritual exercises. There are many types and lineages of Yoga, with m [ ... ]

Dhyana | Indian Spiritual and Yoga Meditation Practice
Dhyana is an Indian Sanskrit (and Pali) term for what today is called meditation, but depending on the sources, religion, spiritual tradition, and/or [ ... ]