Sadhana Practices of Nath Sampraday

In Natha Sampradaya the sadhana practice is presented by a mantra-yoga, hatha yoga, laya yoga and raja yoga, as well as…

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…

Karma Yoga is “What We Reap is What We Sow”

Karma yoga (Sanskrit: कर्म योग), also called Karma Marg, is one of the four classical spiritual paths in Hinduism, one based on the…

Raja Yoga Assured Health Benefits

Raja Yoga usually refers to the system of yoga that is described in the Yoga Sutras of Sage Patanjali. In…

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,…

Gorakshanath: Incarnation and His Great Works

Gorakshanath (also known as Gorakhnath, Goraksanath) was a Hindu Yogi, the saint who was the influential founder of the Nath Hindu monastic movement in India. He is considered…