spiritual aura. Yoga texts disagree on the number of nadis in the human body. The Hatha Yoga Pradipika and Goraksha Samhita quote 72,000 nadis, each branching...

subtle body - known as meridians in Chinese medicine and as nadis in Hatha yoga. Yin Yoga poses apply moderate stress to the connective tissues of the...

nadi, nadī, or Nadi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nadi, is a region in Fiji. Nadi or NADI may refer to: Aldo Nadi, Italian fencer Alireza Nadi,...

channels of the subtle body (nāḍī), and energetic seals (mudrā). Chapter 1 deals with setting the proper environment for yoga, the ethical duties of a yogi...

Ashtanga yoga (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्गयोग, romanized: aṣṭāṅgayoga, "the eight limbs of yoga") is Patanjali's classification of classical yoga, as set out in...

Kundalini Yoga, a simple breathing technique of alternate nostril breathing (left nostril, right nostril), are taught as a method to cleanse the nadis, or subtle...

and activates the pingala nadi energy Brahinsky, Rachel (12 April 2017). "Use "Bee Breath" to Get Anxiety to Buzz Off". Yoga Journal. Retrieved 3 June...

Nādi Astrology (nāḍi jyotiṣa) is a form of astrology practiced in Tamil Nadu and adjacent regions in India. It is based on the belief that the present...

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...

ceremonies and festivals." Sahaja Yoga believes that in addition to our physical body there is a subtle body composed of nadis (channels) and chakras (energy...

manipulation (including its nadis and chakras. Teachings about chakras and Kundalini became central to later forms of Indian yoga. Tantric concepts influenced...

energy) along with nadi (energy carrying arteries). According to Gavin Flood, the ancient texts do not present chakra and kundalini-style yoga theories although...

through yoga is not found in these sources. According to Lorenzen, Vedic ideas related to the body later diversified into the "mystical anatomy" of nadis and...

portal Acupuncture point Chakra List of acupuncture points Marma adi Nadi (yoga) Pressure points Glossary of alternative medicine Novella, Steven (25...

Raja yogas are Shubha ('auspicious') yogas in jyotish philosophy and tradition. They are believed to give success and a grand rise in career or business...

A bandha (Sanskrit: बंध) is a kriyā in Hatha Yoga, being a kind of internal mudra described as a "body lock," to lock the vital energy into the body. Bandha...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Water deities. Ekendriya Holy wells Nadi (yoga) Nature worship Sea monster Water chakra Water spirit 謝婧; 下園知弥; 宮崎克則 (2015)...

systems of yoga focus on awakening kuṇḍalinī through: meditation, pranayama, the practice of asana, and chanting of mantras. Kundalini yoga is influenced...

breath exercises used in the practice of Hatha yoga.l, a Hindu practice. Similar to the practice of Nadi Shodhana (commonly called alternate nostril breathing...

Mahamudra is a hatha yoga gesture (mudra) whose purpose is to improve control over the sexual potential. The sexual potential, associated with apana, is...

in yoga, it is visualised within the body. The subtle body consists of focal points, often called chakras, connected by channels, often called nadis, that...

School of Yoga is a modern school of yoga founded and developed by Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati in Munger, Bihar, India, in 1963. The system of yoga taught...

known as shatkriyas, are a set of Hatha yoga purifications of the body, to prepare for the main work of yoga towards moksha (liberation). These practices...

Dhana yogas are astrological combinations or yogas for wealth and prosperity which prove more fruitful if both the lagna and its lord are strong, and there...

children representing yin and yang. Xiuzhen Tu Meridian (Chinese medicine) Nadi (yoga) Microcosm–macrocosm analogy Hill, Sandra (1997). Reclaiming the Wisdom...

Hatha Yoga Pradipika states that the pose destroys all diseases, and that a yogin in the pose who retains the air breathed in through the nadi channels...

In yoga, Ayurveda, and Indian martial arts, prana (प्राण, prāṇa; the Sanskrit word for breath, "life force", or "vital principle") permeates reality on...

movement instrument, channels and inner breath currents'), also known as yantra yoga, is a Vajrayana discipline which includes pranayama (breath control) and...

the components of hatha yoga, namely asanas, pranayama, and bandhas, and sometimes details of the subtle body with chakras, nadis and koshas; meditation;...

teach yoga as having three types, namely mantra yoga, laya yoga, and hatha yoga. All three lead to samadhi, the goal of raja yoga. Mantra yoga consists...