Yoga/Related Articles

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•  Asana: Body position in Joga to improve flexibility and vitality, often held for extended periods. ^[e]
•  Bhagavad Gita‎: A Vaisnava treatise composed around the time of Christ, or perhaps a century or so before, and incorporated into the text of the epic poem Mahabharata. ^[e]
•  Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Sanskrit text by Maharishi Swatmarama that explains Hatha Yoga. ^[e]
•  Hinduism: A diffuse set of cultural and religious practices that originated on the Indian subcontinent. ^[e]
•  Mantra: something that is said, or perhaps sung, frequently and is deliberately repeated over and over ^[e]
•  Patanjali: (c. 150 BC) Indian teacher credited with gathering and systematizing the teachings of meditation and yoga, based on a loose set of doctrines and practices from the Upanishads. ^[e]
•  Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A foundational text of Yoga, which forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India's Mauryan period. ^[e]
•  Shatkarma: Add brief definition or description
•  Bhagavad Gita‎: A Vaisnava treatise composed around the time of Christ, or perhaps a century or so before, and incorporated into the text of the epic poem Mahabharata. ^[e]
•  Patanjali: (c. 150 BC) Indian teacher credited with gathering and systematizing the teachings of meditation and yoga, based on a loose set of doctrines and practices from the Upanishads. ^[e]
•  Shatkarma: Add brief definition or description
• Maharishi Swatmarama: Add brief definition or description
•  Swami Muktibodhananda Saraswati: Yoga practitioner most notable for her translation of and extensive commentary upon the Hatha Yoga Pradipika. ^[e]
•  Swami Satyananda Saraswati: Add brief definition or description
• Swami Sivananda Saraswati: Add brief definition or description
• Upanishads: Add brief definition or description
•  Vedas: Oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism. ^[e]
•  Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A foundational text of Yoga, which forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India's Mauryan period. ^[e]