Shaivism (Sanskrit: शैव पंथ, śaiva paṁtha) (Tamil: சைவ சமயம்) is the oldest of the four major sects of Hinduism, the others being Vaishnavism, Shaktism and Smartism.
SHAIVISM
The Indian religious and philosophical traditions that use the name Shiva to denote the ultimate Reality. In Siddha Yoga, the term Shaivism is generally used to refer to the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir.
Kashmir Shaivism
This is a non-dual philosophy. It recognizes the entire creation as the manifestation of a singular, divine consciousness or Shiva.
Kashmir Shaivism has also produced tantric texts combining the highest thought with practical application.
Kashmir Shaivism - a school of Yoga philosophy that recognizes the essential unity of everything in the universe.
KASHMIR SHAIVISM:
A branch of the Shaivite philosophical tradition, propounded by Kashmiri sages, that explains how the formless supreme Principle, known as Shiva, manifests as the universe.
in Kashmir Shaivism, the theory of the alphabet.
Matsyendrasana
a spine twisting pose.
Sanatan Society
Shaivism is the Key contributor to Yoga as eveident from Patanjali, Thirumoolar and the shivaagamas the basic tantra scriptures having Yoga pada as the major section.
Siddha yoga is a new religious movement based in part on the Hindu spiritual traditions of Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism.
In the classical literature of Kashmir Shaivism Kundalini is described in three different manifestions. The first of these is as the universal energy or para-Kundalini.
a key concept of Kashmir's Shaivism according to which the ultimate Reality itself "quivers," that is, is inherently creative rather than static (as conceived in Advaita Vedanta)
Sraddha
Faith ...
is a non-sexual practice to devote to Siva and Shakti. By a flowing Siva-Dance (Tandava) the body gets sensual. That makes consciousness dive into total perception of actual nows. Spanda (vibration) a school of Shaivism is base of vinyasa yoga ...
Also very much involved with service (refering Karma Yoga), and way of the heart. The unitive discipline of love/devotion, as expounded, for instance, in the Bhagavad-Gita, the Bhagavata-Purana, and numerous other scriptures of Shaivism and ...
 See also: Yoga, Spirit, Spiritual, India, Shakti
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