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Overview of Yoga Types and Practices

This document discusses different types of yoga, including Hatha yoga, Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga, Raja yoga, Mantra yoga, Kundalini yoga, and Tantra yoga. It provides brief descriptions of each type of yoga, focusing on the disciplines and practices involved. The document emphasizes that yoga is a means to achieve union between the individual consciousness and the supreme consciousness, and that it offers a practical approach to alleviating suffering and developing the personality.

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Overview of Yoga Types and Practices

This document discusses different types of yoga, including Hatha yoga, Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga, Raja yoga, Mantra yoga, Kundalini yoga, and Tantra yoga. It provides brief descriptions of each type of yoga, focusing on the disciplines and practices involved. The document emphasizes that yoga is a means to achieve union between the individual consciousness and the supreme consciousness, and that it offers a practical approach to alleviating suffering and developing the personality.

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  • Introduction to Types of Yoga: A brief introduction to the types of yoga included in the teacher's training course, citing references and important texts.
  • Fundamentals of Yoga: Explains the foundational concepts and meanings of yoga from traditional texts and philosophies.
  • Importance of Yoga: Discusses the pathways to self-realization and the practical benefits of yoga as a science of personal development.
  • Different Types of Yoga: Provides an overview of various disciplines within yoga including Ashtanga, Hatha, Bhakti, Karma, and others.
  • Patanjal Yoga / Raja Yoga: Details the components of Raja Yoga, focusing on its principles and stages like Yama and Niyama.
  • Hatha Yoga: Describes Hatha Yoga practices, its benefits, and balance in the nervous system.
  • Bhakti Yoga: Explores the path of devotion and love in Bhakti Yoga, detailing methods and states of meditation.
  • Karma Yoga: Explains the concept of Karma Yoga as per Bhagwad Geeta, focusing on selfless work and personal development.
  • Karma Yoga Continued: Continues the discussion on Karma Yoga, emphasizing actions without attachments and spiritual growth.
  • Tantra Yoga: Introduces Tantra Yoga, explaining its principles, practices, and the duality of right and left-hand Tantra.
  • The Need for Yoga: Summarizes the different yoga types' contributions to personal growth and holistic wellness.

Types of YOGA

Teachers Training Course


References –
Meditations– Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Raja Yoga – Swami Vivekananda
Karma Yoga – “Bhagwat Geeta” original script, Swami Vivekananda, Swami
Satyananda
Kunadalini Tantra – Swami Satyananda, “Gheranda Sanhimta” original script
Kriya Yoga – Swami Satyananda, “Patanjal Yoga Sutra” original script
Yoga
• Yoga – “YUJ” means to Join
– Yoga means to join individual (“Jivatma”) with
supreme consciousness.
• “SAMATVAM YOGA UCHYATE” – yoga is
balance. Bhagwad Gita
• “YOGA KARMASU KAUSHALAM” – yoga
is skilled action. Bhagwad Gita
• Yoga is Union between “Purush & Prakriti”
/ “Shiva & Shakti” / Realizing “Bramhan”
Yoga - Importance
• Yoga shows the pathway to self realization
• Yoga is practical approach to achieving
ultimate goal of life.
• Yoga alleviates man’s sufferings
• Yoga is a science of personality
development
Types of Yoga
• Ashtanga Yoga – Discipline of Mind
• Hatha Yoga – Discipline of Body and Prana
• Bhakti Yoga – Discipline of Emotions
• Karma Yoga – Discipline of Actions
• Gyan Yoga – Discipline of Intellect
Tantra –
• Mantra Yoga
• Kundalini Yoga
• Swara Yoga, Nada yoga, Laya yoga etc.
Patanjal Yoga / Raja Yoga
• Yama
• Niyama
• Asana
• Pranayama
• Pratyahara
• Dharana
• Dhyan
• Samadhi
Hatha Yoga
• Ha (PINGALA nadi) + Tha (IDA nadi)
• Balanced Prana in both – rise of Kundalini
• Hatha yoga practices stimulate the chakras
• Shatkarmas (6 types), Asanas, Pranayama,
Mudra & Bandha
• Manipulation of different forces, Prana (5 types)
leading to higher states of mind
• Balance between sympathetic nervous system &
parasympathetic nervous system
Bhakti Yoga
• Yoga of Devotion / LOVE
– Object of Faith
– Complete Surrender
– Release of Emotional energy
• Methods of Bhakti
– “Shravan” – hearing, “Namsankirtan” - chanting, “Smaran”-
remembering, “Bandhan” – attaching the self, “Archan” –
surrender of the self
• State of Meditation
– Continuous thinking of Object of faith or God or Guru
– Concentrated mind on the object
– Losing self identity in the object
• Easiest but most powerful Yoga
• No preparation, no constraints, no entry barriers
Karma Yoga
• Karma Yoga – Described in “Bhagwat Geeta”- It
is the dialog between Lord Krishna and King
Arjuna
• Karma yoga – work with awareness but without
attachment to fruits or outcome of it.
• One loses identity & becomes a mere instrument
of the supreme consciousness
• Individual becomes expert & efficient in his work.
• Develops faculty of concentration, will power
• Selfless Work – forces inner conflicts, desires on
the surface and cleaning takes place.
Karma Yoga Contd.
• “The world is imprisoned in its own activity
except when actions are performed as
worship of GOD. So you must perform
every action sacramentally and be free of
your attachments to the results.”
TANTRA Yoga
• WHAT IS TANTRA? Tan – expansion , tra – Liberation
• Tantra means expansion of awareness and liberation of
energy
• Awakening of energy (Shakti) and taking it to meet
consciousness (Shiva) (Union of Shiva & Shakti)
– RIGHT HAND TANTRA
• MANTRA YOGA
• KRIYA YOGA
• HATHA YOGA
• KUNDALINI YOGA
– LEFT HAND TANTRA
• USE OF LIQUOR, MEAT SEX ETC.
• BLACK MAGIC
• EVIL TECHNIQUES
• VASHIKARAN, KARANI
Yoga - Need
• Bhakti Yoga – Purifying Emotions / passions (Emotional
personality)
• Karma Yoga – Dynamic Self for actions (Dynamic
personality)
• Raja Yoga / Patanjal Yoga / Hatha Yoga – Healthy body
and mind
• Mantra Yoga – Developing power of concentration
• Gyan Yoga – Knowledge of supreme. (Rational
personality)
• Tantra – Swara, Nada, Kundalini yoga – Knowledge of
various aspects of human existence

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