Morning Yoga Poses for Beginners at Home
Importance of Morning Yoga Poses What are the best morning yoga poses? What is the importance? This article gives suitable answers to these queries. You must…
Category: Hatha Yoga
Dhauti Kriya – Types, Steps, Benefits
What is Dhauti? Dhauti Kriya, simply Dhauti, is one of the six yogic cleansing techniques or Shatkarma. Specifically, it is a cleaning process that purifies mainly…
Shatkarma | Shatkriya | Yogic Cleansing Techniques
Shatkarma or Shatkriya are the six yogic cleansing techniques. Some Hatha Yoga texts like Hatha Ratnavali prescribe eight cleansing techniques and call them Ashtakarma. However, most…
Nadi Shuddhi | Nadi Shodhana | Alternate Nostril Breathing
What is Nadi Shuddhi or Nadi Shodhana Pranayama or Alternate Nostril Breathing? Nadi Shuddhi or Nadi Shodhana Pranayama is the basic breath control technique. In English,…
What are Pancha Kosha and Sharira Traya?
Pancha Kosha means five sheaths. In yoga and spirituality, the human body is viewed from two angles: three-fold bodies and five-fold sheaths. In Sanskrit, it is…
What are Nadis in Yoga and Pranayama?
The knowledge of Prana and Nadis in Yoga helps to understand the basics of Pranayama. Nadis play a vital role in the practice of Shatkarma, Mudras,…
What are the Benefits of Pranayama?
The benefits of Pranayama are many as claimed by yoga texts and classical yoga Gurus. Do Science and research accept these claims? What are the benefits…
Pranayama: A Guide to its Philosophy and Practice
Introduction Pranayama in yoga is the fourth limb of eight-fold Raja Yoga. It is often spelled as Pranayam. Only after attaining Asana Siddhi (Mastery in Yoga…
What Is Prana and the Depth of its Significance?
Introduction I Salute that Prana, the form of time and immortality, the lord of mind which volitionally dwells in the physical body, the abode of Brahma,…
Marjari Asana | Bidalasana | Bitilasana | Cat and Cow Pose
Introduction Marjari Asana is a prone kneeling yoga pose. We could not find any documentation for this pose in Medieval classic yoga texts. Hence, I am…