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2 unusual facts about Yoga-nidra


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In 2006, Kamakhya Kumar was awarded a PhD by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (president of India) for his work "Psycho-physiological Changes as Related to Yoga Nidra".

Anandmurti Gurumaa defines yoga nidra as a state of conscious deep sleep.


Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho said that he was directly influenced by Edward Salim Michael's book : The way of inner vigilance (republished in 2010 with the new title : the Law of attention, Nada Yoga and the way of inner vigilance" and for which Ajahn Sumedho wrote a preface).

Alexia Barlier

Alexia's mother was from New Zealand a ballet dancer and yoga teacher and her father was art dealer in Paris, hence her dual nationality.

Amrit Desai

Amrit Desai (born October 16, 1932) is a Yoga master who founded the Kripalu Center and currently oversees the Amrit Yoga Institute in Salt Springs, Florida, located in the Ocala National Forest.

And It's Beautiful

The song features a mantra chant interlude, which is an activity Brad Roberts had taken up (along with Yoga) during the band's hiatus (and formed the basis for his side-project Satsang Circus).

Anthony Meindl

Anthony Paul Meindl (born January 14, 1968 in LaPorte, Indiana) is an American Yoga Instructor, stage actor and film actor, and is the founder and artistic director at the MetaTheatre Company and Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop in Los Angeles, California.

Benedict Lust

He became known as the "Father of Naturopathy" in America, and his writings and magazines introduced Americans not only to German methods, but also Indian concepts of Ayurveda and Yoga.

Cameron Alborzian

He continued his studies at Arsha Yoga Vidya Peetam Trust in Coimbatore, India in 2003.

Eastern philosophy

What can be said to be common to many theistic Hindus is belief in Dharma, reincarnation, karma, and moksha (liberation) of every soul through a variety of moral, action-based, and meditative yogas.

Galva High School

Lindsey Hepner-Jackson, PhD: Graduate of Western Illinois University and Saint Xavier University, former Olympic marksman and yoga instructor, wife of Frisman Jackson, a former NFL Player and current wide receivers coach at North Carolina State University.

Gireesh Gangadharan

After completing studies he joined as an assistant to "Sameer Thahir" in "Daddy Cool" and later he assisted "Sameer Thahir" in "Chaappa Kurish", "Nidra", "Diamond Necklace", "Anchu Sundharikal" etc.

Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School

Notable alumni include Cary Fowler (59), Executive Director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, Shiva Rea (81), creator of Prana Flow yoga, and Mike McCarley (88), President, NBC’s Golf Channel.

Helena Roerich

In the early 20th century, she created, in cooperation with the Teachers of the East, a philosophic teaching of Living Ethics («Agni Yoga»).

HM Prison Channings Wood

The prison provides educational courses to prisoners, include Barbering, Business Studies, Catering, Industrial Cleaning, Creative Media Studies, Customer Services, Driving Theory, Dry-Lining, Electrical Installation, ESOL, Food Hygiene, Fork Lift Driving, Horticulture, Information Technology, Painting and Decorating, Physical Education and Yoga.

Isha Yoga

Isha Yoga is the collective name given to a series of yoga programs offered by the Isha Institute of Inner-sciences and founded by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev.

John J. Considine

Influences on his life and teaching include Unity Church, est, the Landmark Forum, yoga and meditation; as well as the Anonymous fellowships and the work of Bill W.

Jude Bijou

In 1985 she met Gurumayi Chidvilasananada and became a student of Siddha Yoga Meditation.

Jules de Balincourt

Starr Space operated for three years and was used for diverse community programming, art events, yoga, weekly farmers market, rock shows, church parties and fundraisers, notable performances and performers such as Ryan Trecartin, Terence Koh, Rita Ackermann, Mirror Mirror, the Slits, Lucky Dragons and Harmony Korine.

Kripalvananda

Kripalvananda, along with his disciple Swami Vinit Muni, spent four years from 1977 to 1981 at Desai's yoga centers in the United States, primarily at the Kripalu Yoga Ashram in Sumneytown, Pennsylvania and at Kayavarohana West in 1977 and 1978 at Yogeshwar Muni's Ashram in St. Helena, CA.

Kundalini yoga

(2001) The Physiological Correlates of Kundalini Yoga Meditation: A Study of a Yoga Master, Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback, Jun 2001; 26(2): 147 - 53, PubMed Abstract PMID 11480165.

Lauren Raine

In 2011 she was a presenter at the Goddess Conference in Glastonbury, England, and in 2007 and 2008 she was on the faculty of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in .

Leopold Sulerzhitsky

He was well versed in Eastern-influenced religious practices, informing Stanislavski about yoga, meditation and the nature of Prana.

Mallasamudram

OP and IP services, laboratory and Optometric services, Integrated Testing and Counselling services for HIV, Siddha and Yoga Departments are the services provided here.

Michelle Paisley

In 2002, Paisley earned a Registered Yoga Teacher (500 hours) certification from Yoga Alliance and launched her own yoga studio in Suisun City called Yoga Junction which then relocated to Green Valley.

Mount Madonna Institute

The school covers topics of yoga theory, philosophy and practice, with an emphasis on Ashtanga.

Nanaji Deshmukh

The Wadia Group, Apeejay Education Society (AES), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF), Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MPCST), India Development Coalition of America (IDCA), Department of Elementary Education (DEE), The Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Ayurveda Yoga & Naturopathy Unani Siddha and Homoeopathy(AYUSH) and Sewa International (SI)

Nargol

According to the founder and holy spiritual leader of Sahaja Yoga, Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, the Sahasrara chakra was opened in Nargol in the year 1970 under that tree, thus marking the beginning of Sahaja Yoga.

Natya Yoga

Natya Yoga, first practiced by Narada, a divine sage from the Vaisnava tradition of Hinduism

Neo-Advaita

Practice, especially Jnana Yoga, is needed to "destroy one’s tendencies (vAasanA-s)" before real insight can be attained.

Neten Chokling

The film is about the adventurous years of the legendary buddhist mystic, Milarepa (1052-1135), who is one of the most widely known Tibetan Saints, and who initially set out for vengeance and retribution.

Neti

Neti neti, a chant or mantra in Hinduism, and in particular Jnana Yoga and Advaita Vedanta

One Armed Boxer

This group consists of two karate experts and their teacher, a Judo master, a Taekwondo expert, two Thai boxing fighters, a Yoga expert, and two mystic Tibetan lamas (who are later revealed in the sequel to be students of an Imperial Assassin).

Prison contemplative programs

She introduced yoga and large scale meditation programs at that prison and these programs were filmed and released as the documentary Doing Time, Doing Vipassana.

Savusavu

Namale Resort hosts regular seminars in the Tony Robbins Life Mastery programme; the Jean Michel Cousteau Resort is one of the few 5 star resorts to offer a children’s camp; Daku Resort runs a programme of learning holidays in art, yoga, singing snorkeling and birdwatching throughout the year.

Shibendu Lahiri

Kriya Yoga is an ancient yoga system revived in modern times by Mahavatar Babaji through his disciple Lahiri Mahasaya and brought into widespread public awareness through Paramhansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi.

Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting

Many returning character was given at least one additional special move, such as Chun-Li's Kikoken projectile attack and Dhalsim's Yoga Teleport.

Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains

In an interview with amazon.co.uk she reveals she began writing about a fat man doing yoga in the desert whilst studying on the UEA Creative Writing Course and then spent time herself living in the Arizona desert near Tucson.

Takaaki Yoshimoto

In the 1990s, after characterizing the Yoga practices of Asahara Shoko of Aum Shinrikyo as expressing the inner core of early Buddhist asceticism, Yoshimoto was criticized along with Nakazawa Shin'ichi as a defender of Aum following the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

The Yoga Institute

The Yoga Institute was founded in 1918 by Shri Yogendraji at “The Sands,” the residence of the Grand Old Man of India, Dadabhai Naoroji, at Versova beach near Bombay.

Tim van der Vliet

During his years at Source, Tim passes the three exams of the CFA Institute, takes up a daily yoga practice, raises three children and reads and philosophies at night.

Toe socks

This provides a non-slip surface and provides for a more complete range of motion for form-fitting yoga, pilates, or Wii Fit exercises.

Velliangiri Mountains

"Many many great masters of all tradition deposited their wisdom and energy in this peak made it as a spiritual library of the world" says Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, the founder of Isha Foundation and the Isha Yoga Centre.

Wiawaka Holiday House

Some recent workshop topics have included creative writing, poetry readings with Yaddo poet Joan Murray, holistic healing, yoga, quilting, historical lectures, jewelry making, and tours of the historic property.

William Walker Atkinson

As Ramacharaka, he helped to popularize Eastern concepts in America, with Yoga and a broadly-interpreted Hinduism being particular areas of focus.

Yoga Journal

The data, collected by the Harris Interactive Service Bureau (HISB), shows that 20.4 million people practice yoga in America.

Yoga Journal was started in May 1975 by the California Yoga Teachers Association, which included William Staniger, Chairman (aka William Golden since 1982), Rama Jyoti Vernon, President, Janis Paulsen, Secretary/Treasurer, and board members Ike and Judith Lasater, Rose Garfinkle, and Jean Girardot.

Yogamaharishi Swami Gitananda

Hundreds of Asanas, Kriyas, Mudras, Pranayama, Raja Yoga practices, Kundalini techniques and higher meditative activities as well as yoga theory are studied in great depth.


see also

Padmanabhaswamy Temple

The Principal Deity, Padmanabhaswamy, is enshrined in the "Anantha-sayanam" posture (in the eternal sleep of Yoga-nidra on the serpent Anantha).