The lotus position is one of the most useful and important asana. It is the preferred posture for meditation and the breathing exercises of pranayama. Even by those who don’t practice yoga, the lotus pose is arguably the most well-known yoga pose today. Many people believe it to be the “classic” yoga pose. Many yoga classes begin or end with the lotus pose, which is frequently used for meditation. For those who…

Yoga is an experiential science with the goal of integration (samadhi). Integration means to make the individual consciousness familiar with the experience of a higher, universal consciousness. In order for us to arrive at this experience, yogic teaching has developed a whole range of techniques and tested them over thousands of years, adapting the same to human development. At very early stages, the great sages of yoga science…

More than six million Americans practice one of the many variations of yoga on a more or less regular basis. In addition, there are millions of yoga devotees worldwide. Yoga originated somewhere in India about 5000 years ago, but only reached Europe and America about 100 years ago. And even younger is the modern yoga boom that began in the USA – essentially triggered by the successful TV series by Richard Hittleman – in the 1960s. This…