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Yoga Paths, An Overview Of Different Schools and Traditions
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Yoga comes from connecting to God, just as the word religion means in western context. There are many schools or even called sampradajas with different forms of yoga. All teachings guide an embodied spirit in a (non)-personal relationship to God.

The supreme godhead resides in every being in its heart.

The native yoga-paths are a part of the vedic-culture we refere to today a hinduism, but the real importance of vedic culture seems to be that it has enabled native yoga-paths to stay in the Indian sub-continent unchanged longer than they have in other locations. It seems as if these philosophies were known all over the world.

This overview below may help you to find your own path. No form of yoga is better than the other, there are different paths as individuals exist. The common of all forms is the reconnecting, the religio or even yoga with God.

KARMA YOGA (Bhikshu)
Karma Yoga achieves union with God through right action and through service (Bhakti Yoga). Karma Yoga can also be summed up in a statement by Sri Bhagavan Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita: "Worshipping Him with proper actions, a man attains realization". One key to Karma Yoga is the performance of right action and service for its own sake, without consideration of the immerdiate or apparent results.

BHAKTI YOGA (div. Authors)
The Yoga of love and devotion. The Way of Transcendent Love which sees the whole universe, animate and inanimate, as being pervaded by divinity. Also very much involved with service (refering Karma Yoga), and way of the heart.

HATHA YOGA (none)
It is a yoga concerned with physical and energetical purification and training. Its goal is to bring the physical body into a perfect state of health so the soul has a fitting vehicle of expression to work through. It embraces many practices, including physical postures and breathing excercises (pranayama) which alos act upon the physical nervious system and etheric body which is considered a corollary aspect of the physical body and brings the vital energies of the physical and etheric bodies under conscious control.

You may look to healing-section, until I get more information.

KRIYA YOGA:

ASTANGA YOGA (Eightfold Yogapath):
Yama
Niyama
Asana
Pranayama 		Pratyahara
Dharana
Dhyana
Samadhi

SIDDHA YOGA

RAJA YOGA

SAHAJA YOGA:

JNANA YOGA
Jnana Yoga is the yoga of the philosopher and thinker who wants to go beyond the visible, material reality. The Jana Yogi finds God through knowledge. Jnana Yoga is summed up in the Upanishads by the following statement: "In the method of reintegration through knowledge, the mind is ever bound to the ultimate end of existence which is liberation This method leads to all attainments and is ever auspicious." [...]
-- Excerpt of "Hidden Mysteries" by Joshua David Stone

SURAT SHABD OR NADA YOGA

KUNDALINI YOGA
  • Dhyanyoga Center (Dan Mc Donald)
    Kundalini Maha Yoga. is an ancient universal science, perfected over thousands of years. Anandi Ma is an advanced disciple of Dhyanyogi and one of few people who can perform Skaktipat. Through Shaktipat the disciple can excel quickly in their spiritual journey towards Self Realization - Enlightenment.
  • Shoshoni Yoga Retreat ()
    Shoshoni Yoga Retreat is the mountain home of Swami Shambhavananda, an adept yogi who has given many people an experience of their true nature.
  • The Yogi Bhajan Site ()
    Introduction to Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga and Mahan Tantric. Includes International Directory of Kundalini Yoga Centers and Teachers, listing of reteats and events and a bazaar of products and services for health, healing and happiness.

TANTRA YOGA
  • Hindu Tantrik Home Page (Mike Magee)
    The Tantrik Tradition, The Natha Sampradaya, and misc associated material on Tantra.

AGNI YOGA
Agni Yoga is a synthesis of all yogas, especially Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Raja Yoga. Agni is the Sanskrit word for Fire--the Creative Fire of the Cosmos--the Fire that is found in varying degrees at the foundation of all Yogas.

MANTRA YOGA
Mantra Yoga finds union with God through the proper use of speech and sound. It is the power of the word to create or destroy that Mantra Yoga emphasizes. It utilizes the focus intent to make every word you speak be in harmony with God and with your own soul. [...]

YANTRA YOGA
Yantra Yoga is the path of union with God thorough geometric visualization. A yantra is a geometric design. They are highly effiecient tools for contemplation, concentration, and meditation. [...]

LAYA YOGA
ASPARSHA YOGA
SANKIRTAN YOGA
SHIVA YOGA
TARAKA YOGA
LAMBIKA YOGA
SAPTA YOGA
Sapta Yoga is based on the ancient Yogic text, the "Gheranda Samhita." It is both a spiritual practice and a therapeutic art, successful in removing the causes of numerous diseases highly resistant to orthodox Western healing methods. It is taught by Yogacharya Dr. Sushil Bhattacharya, director of the Patanjali Yoga Center in Kathmandu, Nepal.

INTEGRAL YOGA
  • Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo (Govindachari Raghunath)
    "Integral Yoga" of Sri Aurobindo, the revolutionary saint of India who lived during 1872-1950.

YOGA OF SYNTHESIS (Karma-, Bhakti-, Jnana and Raja Yoga)
  • SRYA, School for Research in Yoga and Ayurveda ()
    A non-profit organisation, "Yoga of Synthesis" (Karma-, Bhakti-, J�ana and Raja Yoga) and "Yoga and Ayurveda" (Yoga-chikitsa or Yoga-therapy and medical science of Ayurveda), developed by Sri Chandrasekhar.
  • Ashram on the Internet ()
    Spiritual group founded by Sri Sivananda-Valentina. Non-profit spiritual organization dedicated to spreading its Guru's Teachings.
  • Arhatic Yoga (Unicorn)
    Arhatic Yoga is called the "Yoga of Synthesis." It deals with the activation of the chakras, and the awakening of the kundalini through a systematic and safe method.
  • Sathya Sai Baba ()
    Sathya Sai Baba is a spiritual leader and world teacher, whose life and message are inspiring millions of people throughout the world to turn Godward and to lead more purposeful and moral lives. Teaches a synthesis of different Yoga Paths.
  • Yoga in Daily Life ()
    Yoga in Daily Life - a holistic system for (re)gaining the physical, mental, social and spiritual health, founded by Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda.

YOGA SAMPLE LESSONS:

MISCELLANEOUS YOGA INFORMATION:

Vedic Yoga Movements and Teachings:

Here are some yoga web pages directly derived from vedic-culture:

Non-Hindu Yoga Movements and Teachings:

 Here some yoga paths, which aren't strongly connected to vedic-culture, in terms of Hinduism.

Other Sites:

Internet Relay Chat (IRC):

Stay for a while, if you are alone on a channel - else each one just stays few moments and it seems, no one is interested ...

Web-Chat

Use your browser to chat and to discuss particular topics with other people.

Newsgroups:

For further and/or deeper information look at Karma Yoga, Bhakti-Yoga, Original Kriya Yoga at a glance, Astanga Yoga, Siddha Mahayoga FAQ, The Living Tradition of Sahaj Marg, Sahaja Yoga, The Quan Yin Method, Agni Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Yantra Yoga, Misc. Yoga Lessons, Misc. Yoga Information.

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