Yoga IyengarLe Yoga Iyengar est une forme de yoga postural créée par B.K.S. Iyengar et exposée dans son livre publié en 1966. Il est basé sur la pratique approfondie des asanas (les postures de yoga) et du pranayama (la respiration yogique). Après avoir étudié plus de 200 asanas classiques et 14 types différents de pranayama, B.K.S. Iyengar les a synthétisés et ordonnés en ordre de difficulté croissante, pour permettre au novice une progression graduelle en fonction de son niveau.
YogathérapieLa yogathérapie est une pratique pseudomédicale fondée sur l'usage « santé » de méthodes et principes issus du Yoga. Comme la plupart des pratiques pseudomédicales, la yogathérapie fait l'objet d'un suivi par la Miviludes en raison de suspicions de dérives sectaires. Des alertes ont en effet été émises concernant des adeptes abandonnant leurs traitements médicaux, ou subissant une perte de poids très importante à la suite d'un régime drastique. En outre, des dérives complotistes ont pu être identifiées. Pl
The Yoga InstituteThe Yoga Institute (abbreviated as TYI) is a government recognized non-profit organisation, known as the oldest organized yoga center in the world. It was founded in 1918 by Shri Yogendra (1897-1989), who was one of the important figures in the modern revival of yoga. It is headquartered in Santacruz, Mumbai, India. The Yoga Institute is certified by the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India as the first authorized Yoga School to conduct government certified courses.
Swami KuvalayanandaSwami Kuvalayananda (born Jagannatha Ganesa Gune, 30 August 1883 – 18 April 1966) was a yoga guru, researcher, and educator primarily known for his pioneering research into the scientific foundations of yoga. He started research on yoga in 1920, and published the first journal specifically devoted to studying yoga, Yoga Mimamsa, in 1924. Most of his research took place at the Kaivalyadhama Health and Yoga Research Center at Lonavla which he founded in 1924. He has had a profound influence on the development of yoga as exercise.
Bikram yogavignette Le Bikram yoga est un type de yoga que a synthétisé à partir du hatha yoga, mais critiqué pour son aspect commercial, ainsi que pour les risques sur la santé liés à sa pratique dans des pièces chauffées à au moins . Cette technique est popularisée au début des années 1970. Bikram Choudhury, né à Calcutta, est le fondateur du Yoga College of India de Los Angeles. Le premier centre de Yoga Bikram ouvert en France est créé à Marseille, par Corinne Korsia, en 2001 : le Centre bikram yoga.
Yoga (philosophy)Yoga philosophy is one of the six major orthodox schools of Hinduism, though it is only at the end of the first millennium CE that Yoga is mentioned as a separate school of thought in Indian texts, distinct from Samkhya. Ancient, medieval and most modern literature often refers to Yoga-philosophy simply as Yoga. A systematic collection of ideas of Yoga is found in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a key text of Yoga which has influenced all other schools of Indian philosophy.
Shri YogendraManibhai Haribhai Desai (1897 – 1989), known as (Shri) Yogendra was an Indian yoga guru, author, poet, researcher and was one of the important figures in the modern revival of Hatha Yoga, both in India and United States. He was the founder of The Yoga Institute, the oldest organized yoga centre in the world, established in 1918. He is often referred as the Father of Modern Yoga Renaissance. He was one of the figures responsible for reviving the practice of asanas and making yoga accessible to people other than renunciates.
Modern yogaModern yoga is a wide range of yoga practices with differing purposes, encompassing in its various forms yoga philosophy derived from the Vedas, physical postures derived from Hatha yoga, devotional and tantra-based practices, and Hindu nation-building approaches. The scholar Elizabeth de Michelis proposed a 4-part typology of modern yoga in 2004, separating modern psychosomatic, denominational, postural, and meditational yogas.
Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga)Ashtanga yoga (अष्टाङ्गयोग, "the eight limbs of yoga") is Patanjali's classification of classical yoga, as set out in his Yoga Sutras. He defined the eight limbs as yamas (abstinences), niyama (observances), asana (posture), pranayama (breathing), pratyahara (withdrawal), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (absorption). The eight limbs form a sequence from the outer to the inner. The posture, asana, must be steady and comfortable for a long time, in order for the yogi to practice the limbs from pranayama until samadhi.
Asanathumb|Sarvangasana. Āsana (IAST; आसन en sanskrit devanāgarī) est un terme sanskrit désignant une posture ou un exercice corporel et correspondant dans les Yoga Sūtra de Patañjali au troisième membre (aṅga) du Yoga. La Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā (texte de base du haṭha yoga, composée par Svātmārāma) donne la description de plusieurs āsana. C'est ce Yoga qui est le plus répandu en Occident. Āsana traduit littéralement « le fait de s'asseoir » ou la « manière d'être assis ». Dans le Yoga, ce terme a le sens de « posture rituelle ».
