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Siddhasana, the Glossary

Siddhasana (सिद्धासन) or Accomplished Pose is an ancient seated asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise suitable for meditation.^[1]

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Asymmetric asanas
Medieval Hatha Yoga asanas
Meditation asanas
Sitting asanas

Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya (lit), was an Indian Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta.

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An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose,Verse 46, chapter II, "Patanjali Yoga sutras" by Swami Prabhavananda, published by the Sri Ramakrishna Math p. 111 and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.

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Ātman (Hinduism)

Ātman (आत्मन्) is a Sanskrit word for the true or eternal Self or the self-existent essence or impersonal witness-consciousness within each individual.

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B. K. S. Iyengar

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (14 December 1918 – 20 August 2014) was an Indian teacher of yoga and author.

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Broadside Lotus Press

Broadside Lotus Press is an independent press created from the merger of two Detroit-based publishers Broadside Press, founded by Dudley Randall in 1965; and Naomi Long Madgett's Lotus Press, founded in 1972.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population.

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Dhyana in Hinduism

Dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) in Hinduism means contemplation and meditation.

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DK (publisher)

Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.

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Edwin Bryant (Indologist)

Edwin Francis Bryant is an American Indologist.

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Gangaramaya Temple

Gangaramaya Temple (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ගංගාරාම මහාවිහාරය śrī gangārāma mahāvihāraya, Tamil: ஸ்ரீ கங்காராம மகாவிகாரம் Srī Gaṅgārāma Makāvikāram) is one of the most important temples in Colombo, Sri Lanka, being a mix of modern architecture and cultural essence.

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Gheranda Samhita

Gheranda Samhita (IAST: gheraṇḍasaṁhitā, घेरंडसंहिता, meaning “Gheranda's collection”) is a Sanskrit text of Yoga in Hinduism.

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Gorakhnath

Gorakhnath (also known as Goraksanath (Sanskrit: Gorakṣanātha), c. early 11th century) was a Hindu yogi, mahasiddha and saint who was the founder of the Nath Hindu monastic movement in India.

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Hatha yoga

Hatha yoga (IAST: Haṭha-yoga) is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy.

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Hatha Yoga Pradipika

The Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā (or Light on Hatha Yoga) is a classic fifteenth-century Sanskrit manual on haṭha yoga, written by Svātmārāma, who connects the teaching's lineage to Matsyendranath of the Nathas.

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Joga Pradīpikā

The Joga Pradīpikā (जोगप्रदीपिका, "A Small Light on Yoga") is a hatha yoga text by Ramanandi Jayatarama written in 1737 in a mixture of Hindi, Braj Bhasa, Khari Boli and forms close to Sanskrit.

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Kleshas (Hinduism)

Klesha (क्लेश) is a Sanskrit word meaning "impurity", "corruption" or "poison".

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Light on Yoga

Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika (Sanskrit: योग दीपिका, "Yoga Dīpikā") is a 1966 book on the Iyengar Yoga style of modern yoga as exercise by B. K. S. Iyengar, first published in English.

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List of asanas

An asana is a body posture, used in both medieval hatha yoga and modern yoga.

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Lotus position

Lotus position or Padmasana (translit) is a cross-legged sitting meditation pose from ancient India, in which each foot is placed on the opposite thigh. Siddhasana and Lotus position are Asymmetric asanas, Buddhist meditation, medieval Hatha Yoga asanas, meditation asanas and sitting asanas.

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Meditation

Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself.

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Meditative postures

Meditative postures or meditation seats are the body positions or asanas, usually sitting but also sometimes standing or reclining, used to facilitate meditation. Siddhasana and Meditative postures are meditation asanas.

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Modern yoga

Modern yoga is a wide range of yoga practices with differing purposes, encompassing in its various forms yoga philosophy derived from the Vedas, physical postures derived from Hatha yoga, devotional and tantra-based practices, and Hindu nation-building approaches.

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Nadi (yoga)

(lit) is a term for the channels through which, in traditional Indian medicine and spiritual theory, the energies such as prana of the physical body, the subtle body and the causal body are said to flow.

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Perineum

The perineum (perineums or perinea) in mammals is the space between the anus and the genitals.

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Pranayama

Pranayama (Sanskrit: प्राणायाम, "Prāṇāyāma") is the yogic practice of focusing on breath.

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Roots of Yoga

Roots of Yoga is a 2017 book of commentary and translations from over 100 ancient and medieval yoga texts, mainly written in Sanskrit but including several other languages, many not previously published, about the origins of yoga including practices such as āsana, mantra, and meditation, by the scholar-practitioners James Mallinson and Mark Singleton.

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Samadhi

Statue of a meditating Shiva, Rishikesh Samādhi (Pali and समाधि), in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools, is a state of meditative consciousness. Siddhasana and Samadhi are Buddhist meditation.

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Shambhala Publications

Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Siddha

Siddha (Sanskrit: सिद्ध; "perfected one") is a term that is used widely in Indian religions and culture.

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Siddhi

In Indian religions, (Sanskrit: सिद्धि; fulfillment, accomplishment) are material, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of yogic advancement through sādhanās such as meditation and yoga.

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Sitting

Sitting is a basic action and resting position in which the body weight is supported primarily by the bony ischial tuberosities with the buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal surface such as a chair seat, instead of by the lower limbs as in standing, squatting or kneeling.

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Subtle body

A subtle body is a "quasi material" aspect of the human body, being neither solely physical nor solely spiritual, according to various esoteric, occult, and mystical teachings.

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Swastika

The swastika (卐 or 卍) is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly found in various Eurasian cultures, as well as some African and American ones.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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Theos Casimir Bernard

Theos Casimir Hamati Bernard (1908–1947) was an American explorer and author known for his work on yoga and religious studies (particularly in Tibetan Buddhism).

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Vertebral column

The vertebral column, also known as the spinal column, spine or backbone, is the core part of the axial skeleton in vertebrate animals.

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Vimanarcanakalpa

The Vimānārcanākalpa is a 10th to 11th century text on Hatha yoga, attributed to the sage Marichi.

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Yoga as exercise

Yoga as exercise is a physical activity consisting mainly of postures, often connected by flowing sequences, sometimes accompanied by breathing exercises, and frequently ending with relaxation lying down or meditation.

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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtras) is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga – 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to others, including BKS Iyengar).

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Zafu

A zafu (座蒲) or putuan (pronounced) is a round cushion.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhasana

Also known as Accomplished Pose, Ardha Siddhasana, Burmese pose, Burmese position, Burmese posture, Guptasana, Guptāsana, Jatharaparivrttasvastikasana, Liberated pose, Liberation Pose, Muktasana, Muktāsana, Siddhāsana, Svastikasana, Svastikāsana.

Siddhasana, the Glossary

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See also

Asymmetric asanas

Medieval Hatha Yoga asanas

Meditation asanas

Sitting asanas

References