Tantra has profoundly influenced the history of yoga, yet it is frequently reduced to sexuality or modern ideas of “sacred intimacy”. Explore Tantric traditions, mantra, initiation, deity practice, the subtle body, kuṇḍalinī and Tantra’s important relationship with later Haṭha Yoga.
Rāja Yoga is often described as the “royal path” of meditation and identified with Patañjali’s eight limbs of yoga. Its history, however, is more complex. Explore the Yoga Sūtras, citta-vṛtti-nirodha, meditation, samādhi, the eight limbs and Swami Vivekananda’s influential modern interpretation.
Jñāna Yoga places liberating knowledge and discernment at the centre of practice. Explore its Upaniṣadic foundations, the Bhagavad Gītā, Advaita Vedānta, Ātman and Brahman, self-inquiry and why Jñāna means considerably more than intellectual knowledge.
Bhakti Yoga places devotion and relationship with the Divine at the centre of practice. Explore bhakti in the Bhagavad Gītā and later devotional traditions, the roles of Krishna, mantra, kīrtan, pūjā and surrender, and why Bhakti Yoga means considerably more than simply “the yoga of love”.
Karma Yoga begins with a problem that is almost impossible to avoid. We have to act. Even deciding not to act can
Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga proposes something more radical than escape from ordinary existence: the transformation of life itself. Explore Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the psychic being, spiritual and supramental transformation, the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the distinctive evolutionary vision behind this modern yoga.
Ashtanga means “eight limbs”, but the term describes more than a modern sequence of postures. Explore Patañjali’s eightfold path and its relationship with contemporary Ashtanga Yoga.
Modern Ashtanga Yoga emerged from a particular twentieth-century Indian context. Explore its development in Mysore, its international transmission and the questions its history raises today.
A closer look at Celtic Yoga — exploring what the term means, its modern development and the meeting of Indian yoga with Celtic story, season, landscape and place.
A closer look at pratyāhāra — exploring the relationship between the senses and attention, and its place between breath practice and meditation.
