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YAMA - the principle of common morality, the first stage of Raja Yoga

YAMA (YAMRAJA) - the king of death, god of death

YAMUNA - a holy river in India, another name for the pingala

YANTRA - a symbolical, geometrical drawing, amulet

YOGA - a reunion of the individual with the cosmos
- YOG BRASHT - an interruption, a break on the yoga path
- YOGA MAYA - the illusionary divine power
- YOGA NIDRA - the sleep of the yogi, a deep relaxation technique
- YOGA SUTRAS - the title of Patanjali's text on Raja Yoga
- YOGA VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY - the philosophy of non-dualism
- HATHA YOGA - a yoga system for purifying the body and harmonizing the pranas
- KRIYA YOGA - a set of techniques for advanced yoga practitioners
- KUNDALINI YOGA - a yoga path for the awakening and unfolding of the kundalini
- SVAR YOGA - a yoga concerned with harmonization of energy flows

the four main yoga paths:
- BHAKTI YOGA - the yoga of devotion and love
- JNANA YOGA - the yoga of knowledge
- KARMA YOGA - the yoga of selfless action
- RAJA YOGA - the yoga of meditation

YOGI - one who has united his atma with paramatma through yoga practise, or the one who has realized in oneself the non-duality of atma and paramatma ; the one who practices yoga