Yoga (article courtesy of my friend and yoga teacher Amanda Brown)
Yoga : or union with the soul is popularly thought of as either a series of deep breathing exercises or, perhaps a rather strange set of holding postures.
Yoga
An Eastern system that stresses exercise for attaining bodily and/or mental health. A yogi is someone who practices Yoga.
Yoga is the force behind the beauty and spiritual meaning of life. The word, yoga is derived from the root, yuj, which means to unite or to join together.
Yoga may then be defined as the "rational application of the laws of the unfolding of consciousness in an individual case". That is what is meant by the methods of Yoga.
The word "Yoga" comes from the root "yuj" which means "to join" and, in its spiritual sense, it is that process by which the human spirit is brought into near and conscious communion with, or is merged in, the Divine Spirit, ...
Integral Yoga - Integral/Divine Transmutation
I define Integral primarily in terms of what Sri Aurobindo referred to as Integral consciousness or Integral realisation.
Yoga -- Union of the lower nature with the higher. Different forms and techniques to gain control of the physical, astral or mental bodies.
Yoga (Sans.) A school of philosophy founded by Patanjali, but which existed as a distinct teaching and system of life long before that sage.
Yoga Sanskrit "unite". The science of union. Hatha (physical). Bhakti (devotional - astral). Karma (yoga of action). Raja ("kingly" - mental) Agni (fire - intuitive / buddhic) ...
Raja Yoga. This is the school of Pantanjali, based on the Yoga Sutras, and is the oldest as far as we can determine. It uses the will to control and effectively direct every part of an aspirant's nature towards the spiritual goal.
Yoga
Literally means "yoke" or discipline. With no qualifying adjective, usually refers to Hatha Yoga (discipline of the body).
Yule ...
Yoga practices I never seem to advance in. I cannot live more quietly, but even then the business of living takes time.
Letter to Aleister Crowley (January 28, 1940)
Biography of Frieda Harris
Biographies - Quotations - Oracle - Daily ...
Yoga has two different meanings - a general meaning and a technical meaning. The general meaning is the joining together or union of any two or more things.
Yoga
Sanskrit "Divine Union". Blanket term for a number of Vedantic practices that all have the same end-result - that of liberation from the illusory world of nature by mystical attainment.
Yoga:
Yoga comes from the root word , "Yug", meaning to bind, join, attach. To join ones self to the universal Akasa or essence, is my own definition.
Agni Yoga Society. Agni Yoga books online: Leaves of Morya's Garden, New Era Community, Agni Yoga, Infinity, Hierarchy, Heart, Fiery World, Aum, Brotherhood, and Supermundane.
IV. THE YOGA OF SEX: Tantra and other Exotic Imports from the Mysterious Orient ...
Kundalini Yoga, Spiritual Alchemy,
& the Mysteries of the Breath
in Bhogar's 7000
Preface and Introduction ...
Kundalini Yoga Kundalini Yoga is a system of meditative techniques and movements within the yogic tradition that focuses on psycho-spiritual growth and the body's potential for maturation.
Judd: Book Excerpt: The Green Serpent and the Tree: Kabbala and Kundalini Yoga
Mather Walker: Shylock and Kabbalah in The Merchant of Venice
Discussions on the differences between Jewish Kabbalah and modern "Hermetic Qabalah" ...
The gist of the story was that Reuss had shown Dotzler a peculiar yoga exercise - according to the widely-known version there was a phallic element - at the Hotel Metropole at Munich in 1906.
" Then there is the Taraka Raja Yoga School. Its teaching recognises only three "principles" in fact; but then, in reality, their Sthulopadi, or the physical body, in its waking conscious state, their Sukshmopadhi, the same body in Svapna, ...
One could easily compare this type of practice to a theurgical form of yoga, employing a combination of postures, chants, geometrical visualizations and meditations on the essential nature of reality.
In some Christian churches this state 'is called Union with God, in the East, Yoga, and among Initiates of all races has been striven for though rarely attained. It is "the flight of the Alone to the Alone" says Porphyry.
 See also: Spirit, World, Ritual, Spiritual, Self
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