Modern yoga as exercise has often been taught by women to classes consisting mainly of women. This continued a tradition of gendered physical activity... 25 KB (2,928 words) - 22:58, 5 March 2024 |
Asana (redirect from Yoga posture) originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose, and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position... 90 KB (8,964 words) - 13:46, 3 February 2024 |
Kriya Yoga (Sanskrit: क्रिया योग) is a yoga system which consists of a number of levels of pranayama, mantra, and mudra, intended to rapidly accelerate... 28 KB (3,200 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024 |
Naked yoga (Sanskrit nagna yoga or vivastra yoga) is the practice of yoga without clothes. It has existed since ancient times as a spiritual practice... 15 KB (1,575 words) - 12:16, 27 March 2024 |
Iyengar Yoga, named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar, and described in his bestselling 1966 book Light on Yoga, is a form of yoga as exercise that... 19 KB (1,706 words) - 15:33, 24 April 2024 |
the wearing of yoga pants other than for exercise has aroused controversy, both for school use and when worn by women. Global sales of yoga clothing have... 23 KB (2,099 words) - 20:53, 13 April 2024 |
Bikram Choudhury (redirect from Yoga College of India) Choudhury (born 1944) is an Indian-American yoga guru, and the founder of Bikram Yoga, a form of hot yoga consisting of a fixed series of 26 postures... 22 KB (2,146 words) - 16:23, 10 October 2023 |
Geeta Iyengar (redirect from A Gem for Women) Iyengar, was a yoga teacher credited with advancing yoga for women. Geeta Iyengar, eldest daughter of the founder of the worldwide Iyengar yoga method, Yogacharya... 7 KB (567 words) - 18:57, 1 December 2022 |
Yoga for Women Prisoners?". HuffPost. Retrieved August 6, 2015. Grasgreen, Allie (July 31, 2015). "Kids Before Cons Act aims to fight Pell Grants for... 5 KB (322 words) - 01:17, 29 February 2024 |
friends who had become interested in yoga as a treatment for anxiety and a back injury respectively. The name stands for "air, land, and ocean". The brand... 6 KB (445 words) - 15:35, 4 April 2024 |
has written that in general, Nirmala Srivastava's vision for the role of women within Sahaja Yoga was one of "feminine domesticity and compliance".: 125 ... 33 KB (3,428 words) - 22:23, 9 May 2024 |
B. K. S. Iyengar (category Indian yoga gurus) teacher of yoga and author. He is the founder of the style of yoga as exercise, known as "Iyengar Yoga", and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus... 29 KB (2,933 words) - 19:17, 15 March 2024 |
Awards for "Best Health and Fitness Magazine". It has however been criticized for representing yoga as being intended for affluent white women; in 2019... 14 KB (1,451 words) - 21:39, 18 August 2023 |
Sivananda Saraswati (redirect from Yoga of Synthesis) the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy in 1948. He called his yoga the Yoga of Synthesis, combining the Four Yogas of Hinduism (Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana... 23 KB (1,687 words) - 19:56, 31 March 2024 |
Adriene Mishler (redirect from Yoga With Adriene) American yoga instructor, actress, and entrepreneur, based in Austin, Texas. She produces and hosts Yoga With Adriene on YouTube and is co-founder of yoga video... 13 KB (975 words) - 01:46, 14 March 2024 |
K. Pattabhi Jois (redirect from K Pattabhi Jois Ashtanga Yoga Institute) 2009) was an Indian yoga guru who developed and popularized the flowing style of yoga as exercise known as Ashtanga vinyasa yoga. In 1948, Jois established... 31 KB (2,902 words) - 14:52, 16 February 2024 |
Yogini (category Women yogis) yoginī) is a female master practitioner of tantra and yoga, as well as a formal term of respect for female Hindu or Buddhist spiritual teachers in the Indian... 23 KB (2,908 words) - 10:58, 4 April 2024 |