✦ Yoga Path
The 20 Paths of Yoga
Twenty classical paths of yoga, from Hatha to Shiva Yoga.
Hatha Yoga
The yoga of force or willful effort; 'ha' (sun) and 'tha' (moon) uniting solar and lunar energies within the body.
2Raja Yoga
The 'royal' or 'kingly' path of yoga, emphasizing direct mastery of the mind through meditation and mental discipline.
3Jnana Yoga
The yoga of knowledge or wisdom, attaining liberation through discriminative inquiry into the nature of Self and reality.
4Bhakti Yoga
The yoga of loving devotion, uniting with the Divine through surrender, worship, and emotional communion with a chosen deity.
5Karma Yoga
The yoga of selfless action, attaining liberation by performing duty without attachment to personal reward or outcome.
6Kundalini Yoga
The yoga of the coiled serpent power, awakening the dormant primal energy at the base of the spine to rise through the chakras.
7Kriya Yoga
The yoga of technique or action, using specific pranayama-based practices to rapidly accelerate spiritual evolution and self-realization.
8Tantra Yoga
The yoga of expansive weaving, using ritual, energy, and the sanctification of embodied experience to realize non-dual divine consciousness.
9Laya Yoga
The yoga of dissolution, absorbing the mind into progressively subtler states until individual consciousness merges completely with the Absolute.
10Mantra Yoga
The yoga of sacred sound, using repeated invocation of specific syllables or phrases to focus, purify, and transform consciousness.
11Nada Yoga
The yoga of inner sound, attaining absorption in the Absolute by progressively listening inward to subtler and subtler vibrations.
12Ashtanga Yoga
The eight-limbed yoga, a comprehensive framework outlined by Patanjali progressing from ethical discipline to complete meditative absorption.
13Swara Yoga
The yoga of breath sound and nasal cycle, using observation of the dominant nostril's airflow to understand and harmonize inner energy states.
14Yantra Yoga
The yoga of sacred geometric instruments, using precise diagrams as focal points for meditation to align consciousness with specific cosmic principles.
15Siddha Yoga
The yoga of perfected masters, emphasizing direct transmission of spiritual energy (shaktipat) from an enlightened guru to awaken the disciple's dormant potential.
16Sahaja Yoga
The yoga of spontaneous, effortless union, in which self-realization occurs naturally through the awakening of Kundalini without strenuous technique.
17Shiva Yoga
The yoga of union with Shiva, realizing one's essential identity as pure, unchanging consciousness underlying all manifest existence.
18Yoga Nidra
Psychic or yogic sleep, a systematic meditative technique inducing deep conscious relaxation between waking and sleeping states.
19Agni Yoga
The yoga of inner fire, using disciplined practice to generate and direct transformative heat that burns away impurity and ignorance.
20Integral Yoga
The yoga of total, harmonious transformation, integrating body, mind, heart, and spirit to bring divine consciousness into all dimensions of earthly life.
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