Tag archives for Yoga
The Post Classical Yoga
This is again a very comprehensive category, which refers to all those many types and schools of Yoga that have sprung up in the period after Patanjali's Yoga-Sūtra and that…
Classical Yoga
This label applies to the eightfold Yoga-also known as Rāja-Yoga-taught by Patanjali in his Yoga-Sūtra. This Sanskrit texts is composed of just under 200 aphoristic statements, which have been commented…
Preclassical Yoga
This category covers an extensive period of approximately 2,000 years until the second century Preclassical Yoga comes in various forms and guises. The earliest manifestations were still closely associated with…
Vedic Yoga
The yogic teachings found in the above-mentioned Rig-Veda and the other three ancient hymnodies are known as Vedic Yoga. The Sanskrit word veda means "knowledge," while the Sanskrit term rig…