other forms of yoga

Ananda Yoga

Ananda Yoga is anchored in the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda and was developed by Swami Kriyananda, one of his disciples. This is a gentle style designed to prepare the student for meditation, and its distinguishing feature are the affirmations associated with postures. It includes Yogananda's unique energization exercises, first developed in 1917, which involve consciously directing the body's energy (life force) to different organs and limbs. The center for Ananda Yoga is the Ananda World Brotherhood Village situated in Nevada City, California, and has around 300 residents.

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Integral Yoga

ntegral Yoga was developed by Swami Satchidananda, a student of the famous Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, India. Swami Satchidananda made his debut at the Woodstock festival in 1969, where he taught the Baby Boomers to chant om, and over the years has attracted thousands of students. As the name suggests, this style aims to integrate the various aspects of the body-mind through a combination of postures, breathing techniques, deep relaxation, and meditation. Function is given preeminence over form. Integral Yoga is taught at Integral Yoga International, headquartered at Satchidananda (or Yogaville) Ashram in Buckingham, Virginia, and its over forty branches worldwide.

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Sivananda Yoga

Sivananda Yoga is the creation of the late Swami Vishnudevananda, also a disciple of Swami Sivananda, who established his Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center in Montreal in 1959. He has trained over 6,000 teachers, and there are numerous Sivananda centers around the world. This style includes a series of twelve postures, the Sun Salutation sequence, breathing exercises, relaxation, and mantra chanting.

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Hidden Language Hatha Yoga

Developed by the late Swami Sivananda Radha, a German-born woman student of Swami Sivananda, this style seeks to promote not only physical well-being but also self-understanding by exploring the symbolism inherent in asanas. Hidden Language Yoga is taught by the teachers of Yasodhara Ashram in Kootenay Bay, British Columbia, and its various branches.

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Somatic Yoga

Somatic Yoga is the creation of Eleanor Criswell-Hanna, Ed.D., a professor of psychology at Sonoma State University in California who has taught Yoga since the early 1960s. She is managing editor of Somatics journal, which was launched by her late husband, Thomas Hanna, inventor of Somatics. Somatic Yoga is an integrated approach to the harmonious development of body and mind, based both on traditional yogic principles and modern psycho-physiological research. This gentle approach emphasizes visualization, very slow movement into and out of postures, conscious breathing, mindfulness, and frequent relaxation between postures.

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Other Styles

Other styles of yoga that you may hear mentioned or see advertisements for in Yoga periodicals are Tri Yoga (developed by Kali Ray), White Lotus Yoga (developed by Ganga White and Tracey Rich), Jivamukti (developed by Sharon Gannon and David Life), Svaroopa Yoga (developed by Rama Berch), and Ishta Yoga (developed by Mani Finger and made popular in the United states by his son Alan).

Some information on this page has been adapted from Traditional Yoga Studies Interactive. Please visit www.yrec.info for more information on various yoga practices.