Schools of yoga

Within same a Way (मार्ग, mārga), it can exist different currents. The five major ways, which train the Rajah Yoga, can summarize these directions. It is also possible to follow them separately:

  1. Jnana Yoga: Yoga of transcendent Knowledge;
  2. Bhakti yoga: Yoga of the Devotion and the worship;
  3. Karma yoga: Yoga of the Service and the not involved action;
  4. Kriya yoga: Yoga of the Technique, all the techniques of yoga;
  5. Rajah yoga: Integral yoga, associating the four preceding ways.

Various currents of Kriya yoga

Here principal technical yogas:
  1. the Hatha Yoga, the practice (postural) which is the most known aspect in Occident;
  2. Mantra Yoga;
  3. Tantra yoga or Tantrisme, of which here some currents:
    1. the Shivaïsme of the Cashmere;
    2. the Kundalini yoga;
    3. yoga will nidra.

Schools of yoga

Within same a Way (मार्ग, mārga), it can exist different currents. A yogi recognized like having a perfect command of a mode of teaching, can decide to found a school of yoga. This school will be strongly marked by the personality of the founder as well as the terminology, the techniques and the advance which in its eyes prove to be the best.

Here some Masters founders already present on Wikipédia:

  • Jnana Yoga:
Ramana Maharishi, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Ramesh Balsekar, Poonja, Adi Shankarâchârya.
  • Rajah yoga
Patanjali, Jean Klein, Sri Aurobindo.
  • Kriya yoga, in the technique of Hatha Yoga:
B.K.S. Iyengar, Eva Ruchpaul, Andre van Lysebeth, T.K.V. Desikachar, Swami Satchidananda, Shri Mahesh Ghatradyal, Pattabin Jois, Yogi Bhajan, ViniYoga, Egyptian Yoga, Paramahansa Yogananda.

In yoga, there is not a better school, but a multitude of offers which point:

  • is towards the same goal with different ways: the realization of Self,
  • is towards a common intermediate stage: decorated relaxation of a better physical and mental health.
This diversity is not a sign of weakness or dissension, but rather an answer to the extreme diversity of waitings of each one.

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