Articles on Yoga

  By Acharya David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Tantra and Veda: One Tradition   A number of writers and teachers, …

Upanishadic sages thousands of years ago understood the secrets of neuroscience but going beyond the physical body to higher levels …

By Acharya David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Shiva Yoga and Hamsa   The Hamsa is one of the key concepts …

  Shiva and Prana Yoga  Prana Yoga is one of the most important Yoga traditions and an integral part of …

In the philosophy of Yoga, derived from the Samkhya system, all matter in the universe is reducible to one primary substance called Prakriti. Prakriti literally means the original power of action. It does not refer to substance in the physical sense but to the potential from which all forms of matter, energy and mind can arise. Prakriti is the original state of pure potential out of which all things become possible. Prakriti is the latent state of substance, like the seed that holds the potential for a great tree. It is the prima materia of the world of which matter, energy and mind are manifestations. Prakriti, we could say, is the causal or original form of all substances, from which their subtle and gross forms arise. It is extremely subtle, ethereal and transcendent, forming the basis for space that is its first material form.

Yoga means unification, which is first the unity of all the dualities and contraries that constitute the energies of life. …

Many people today look to Patanjali, the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, as the father or founder of the greater …

  What if the most powerful force for energizing all Yoga practices were as obvious and visible as the Sun? …

All that exists in the three heavens rests in the control of Prana. As a mother her children, oh Prana, …

The Yoga Sutras of Rishi Patanjali portrays a psychological view of Yoga, not a physical Yoga, which is only mentioned …