* June 24 – Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Indian head of Siddha Yoga

The Indian government established the " Central Council for Research in Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy ” in 1969 as an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

It is the Western headquarters of the Siddha Yoga organisation.

* Gurumayi Chidvilasananda is the head of the Siddha Yoga organisation and spends most of her time at the Shree Muktananda Ashram on Brickman Road.

* Swami Muktananda, founder of Siddha Yoga path and the SYDA Foundation.

" Siddha Yoga: Swami Muktanada and the Seat of Power.

* Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy ( AYUSH ) – National Portal of India

Swami Muktananda was the founder of Siddha Yoga.

Muktananda established Gurudev Siddha Peeth as a public trust in India to administer the work there, and founded the SYDA Foundation in the United States to administer the global work of Siddha Yoga meditation .< ref >

* Siddha Yoga Ashram.

One source of information is book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga Tradition by Marshall Govindan.

In the Hindu philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism ( Hindu tantra ), siddha also refers to a Siddha Guru who can by way of Shaktipat initiate disciples into Yoga.

Siddha Yoga is a spiritual path based on the Indian spiritual traditions of Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism.

The Siddha Yoga path was founded by Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa ( 1908 – 1982 ).

The leader of Siddha Yoga is Gurumayi Chidvilasananda.

The Siddha Yoga organization has ashrams and meditation centers in a number of countries, including India, the United States, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Brazil and Japan.

The Siddha Yoga Vision:

The Siddha Yoga Mission:

Three aphorisms express three essential teachings of Siddha Yoga:

In May 1982, Swami Muktananda installed Ms. Shetty ( now known as Gurumayi Chidvilasananda or Gurumayi ) and her brother Subhash Shetty ( now known as Mahamandaleshwar Nityananda ) as co-Gurus and spiritual leaders of Siddha Yoga.

Swami Chidvilasananda continued in her appointed role and has been the sole spiritual leader of Siddha Yoga since then.

In 1996 former devotees started a website entitled ' Leaving Siddha Yoga ' to express their grievances against Siddha Yoga.

Jainism views every soul as worthy of respect because it has the potential to become Siddha ( Param-atma – " highest soul ").

Pritam Singh ( 1992 ) has also traced the origins of Gurmukhi to the Siddha Matrika.

" Siddha Matrika " along with its sister script Takri has its origins in the ancient Sharada script of Kashmir.

In response to concerns of biopiracy raised by research into turmeric, neem and basmati rice, the Government of India has been translating and publishing ancient manuscripts containing old remedies in electronic form, and in 2001 the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library was set up as a repository of 1200 formulations of various systems of Indian medicine, such as Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha.

Abrus precatorius, called kudri mani in Tamil and guru ginja in Telugu, has been used in Siddha medicine for centuries.

Some scholar trace the literacy history of Bhojpuri from Siddha Sahitya itself, as early as 8th century A. D. Kabir ’ s contribution of ‘ nirgun ’ poetry to Sant Sahitya certainly qualifies as recorded literature in Bhojpuri in the 15th century. The nineteenth century has such works as Deviksaracarita by Ramdatta Shukla ( 1884 ), Badmasdarpan by Teg Ali Teg ( 1895 ), and Jangal me Mangal and Nagari Vilap by Ram Garib Chaube in the later half of the nineteenth century.

Fragments of the original tantra have survived, the most significant fragment " Sekkodesha " has been commented upon the Maha Siddha Naropa.

Pragyonpayabiniscayasidhi, written by Indrabhuti and published from Baroda also has description of Jagannath by Siddha Anangavajja.

One of the fort's bastions, the ' Siddha Buruj ', still has a lighthouse, that has stood here for years.

A rustic form of healing that is similar to Siddha medicine has since been practised by experienced elderly in the villages of Tamil Nadu.

Swami Muktananda's spiritual teacher, Bhagawan Nityananda, has been widely regarded throughout India as a Siddha Guru and as an Avadhut since the mid-20th century.

Other Siddha Yoga practices include japa ( mantra repetition ), contemplation, and dakshina, the traditional practice of making a voluntary monetary offering to a saint as an expression of gratitude for what has been received.

Ayurveda ( the ancient Indian medicine system ) and Siddha ( the medicine system from Tamil-Nadu, a southern state in the country of India ) have more uses for this plant root and it has been used for centuries as a medicine.

Ethnomedicine is a sub-field of ethnobotany or medical anthropology that deals with the study of traditional medicines: not only those that have relevant written sources ( e. g. Traditional Chinese Medicine, Siddha, Ayurveda ), but especially those, whose knowledge and practices have been orally transmitted over the centuries.

The work of the organization ( which involves the maintenance of Siddha Yoga ashrams and meditation centers, as well as the design and production of meditation programs, courses, retreats, and publications ) is carried out by the work of " sevites ," Siddha Yoga students engaged in seva, or " selfless service ," as a transformational practice.

Questions about the trademarking of generic spiritual terms such as " Siddha Yoga " were raised by an editorial by <.</ ref > of the SYDA Foundation, a domestic non-profit corporation, since 1977.

The Muslims prefixed the word peer to it in memory of Siddha Faqir and the name thereafter is said to have changed into Peer Panjal.

* Also cited as: Publisher = Siddha Yoga Publications ; ISBN = 0-911307-81-8

In recent decades, the Yoga Sutra has become quite popular worldwide for the precepts regarding practice of Raja Yoga and its philosophical basis.

Whether the two works, the Yoga Sutras and the Mahābhāṣya, are by the same author has been the subject of considerable debate.

According to various teachers and authors, Kundalini Yoga has been described as: " A contrast of active and passive approaches designed to awaken the kundalini.

In recent decades the Yoga Sutra has become quite popular worldwide for the precepts regarding practice of Raja Yoga and its philosophical basis.

* Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev founder of Isha Foundation and the Isha Yoga Centre has a strong volunteer force in India, US and Lebanon.

In his Encyclopedic Dictionary of Yoga ( 1990 ), Dr. Feuerstein writes that the importation of yoga to the West has raised questions as to the appropriateness of spiritual discipleship and the legitimacy of spiritual authority.

" In this context, the meaning of the term is different from the Hatha Yoga position that has the same name vajrāsana.

In addition to recent research on Yoga, Paul Brunton, the British writer who travelled extensively in India, has written about many cases he has witnessed.

Another brother, Friedrich, appears ( anonymously ) in Freud's Civilization and its Discontents as a ' friend of mine, whose insatiable craving for knowledge has led him to make the most unusual experiments ', including ' the practices of Yoga ... He sees in them a physiological basis, as it were, for much of the wisdom of mysticism '.

From the standpoint of Buddhism and Dzogchen, Elías Capriles has objected that transpersonal psychology fails to distinguish between the transpersonal condition of nirvana, which is inherently liberating, those transpersonal conditions which are within samsara and which as such are new forms of bondage ( such as the four realms of the arupyadhatu or four arupa lokas of Buddhism, in which the figure-ground division dissolves but there is still a subject-object duality ), and the neutral condition in which neither nirvana nor samsara are active that the Dzogchen teachings call kun gzhi ( in which there is no subject-object duality but the true condition of all phenomena ( dharmata ) is not patent ( and which includes all conditions involving nirodh or cessation, including nirodh samapatti, nirvikalpa samadhis and the samadhi or turiya that is the supreme realization of Patañjali's Yoga darshana ).

He has written many books on yoga practice and philosophy, and is best known for his books Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, and Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

* New Age music with an ambient sound that has the explicit purpose of aiding meditation and relaxation, or aiding and enabling various alternative spiritual practices, such as alternative healing, Yoga practice, guided meditation, chakra auditing, and so on.

Moksha Yoga Northern Kentucky is a member of a group of independent hot yoga studios committed to ethical, compassionate and environmentally conscious living, which has grown into a worldwide community with classes in Hong Kong, Taipai, England, Trinidad, Singapore, Thailand and across Canada.

* Yoga has been found beneficial.

The team collected asanas from 35 ancient texts including the Hindu epics, the Mahabharata, the Bhagwad Gita, and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras and as of 2010, has identified 900 asanas for the database which was named the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library and made available to patent examiners.

The Yogabhashya is a commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali which has been attributed in the discourse of the tradition to Vyasa.

The Yogabhashya states that ' yoga ' in the Yoga Sutra has the meaning of ' samadhi '.

There has recently been considerable debate in non-dharmic contexts regarding the philosophical debt that Yoga owes to the Hindu civilizational milieu that it arose in.

Controversy has arisen from the claims by Christian and Muslim religious leaders that the practice of Yoga violates the core tenets of Christianity and Islam owing to its unmistakably Hindu content.

* In Street Fighter, the Yoga fanatic Dhalsim has the ability to levitate, which was gained through his Yoga background.