| ahimsa | the principle of doing no harm to living creatures: one of the cornerstones of yoga philosophy. |
| anga | a yoga practice. |
| asana | a yoga posture. |
| ashram asrama | a residential place for people living together and practising yoga. |
| ashrama | one of the stages of life through which the truth-seeker must pass. |
| ashramite | one living in an ASHRAM. |
| ashtanga | a form of yoga aiming to synchronize breathing and posture. |
| bhakta bhakti | devotion to a god, as a path to salvation; a form of yoga. |
| chakra | in Sikh culture, a disc-shaped knife used as a missile; a discus representing the sun, as in portrayals of Hindu gods; in yoga, one of the seven centres of spiritual power in the body. |
| hatha | as in hatha yoga, a form of yoga stressing the importance of physical exercises and positions and breathing-control in promoting physical and mental wellbeing. |
| jnana | spiritual knowledge, as in jnana yoga, a form of yoga stressing this. |
| kundalini | in yoga, spiritual energy that lies dormant at base of spine until the brain is enlightened. |
| maha | as in maha yoga, a form of yoga practised with a master that incorporates all eight classical yogas. |
| mantra mantram | a sacred word or syllable, chanted in yoga practice. |
| mudra | a sealing movement in Yoga. |
| padma | the sacred lotus, after which a famous yoga posture is named. |
| prana | in yoga, vital energy present in air and sunlight. |
| pranayama | the discipline of yogic breathing. |
| siddha sidha | one who has attained occult powers or SIDDHI. |
| siddhi | (in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism) the supernatural powers that come with the spiritual perfection attained by yoga meditation, etc. |
| tantra | any of a number of Hindu and Buddhist writings giving religious teaching and ritual instructions (including the use of incantations, diagrams, etc), as in tantric yoga, a form of yoga based on these. |
| tantric | relating to TANTRA. |
| tantrism | the teaching of TANTRA. |
| yoga | a system of Hindu philosophy showing the means of emancipating the soul from further reincarnations and uniting it with the supreme being; any of a number of systems of physical and mental disciplines based on this. |
| yogee yogi yogin | one who practises yoga. |
| yogic | relating to yoga. |
| yogini | a female YOGIN. |
| yogism | the practice of YOGA. |
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