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Yoga Babu

Welcome to YogaBabu!

This is a not-for-profit project. Every effort has been made to collect all aspects of Yoga in one centralized place here at YogaBabu. Yoga has been used and altered for both physical and mental health benefits throughout the world for many centuries. This is our attempt to present authentic Yoga practices. Please feel free to use this massive repository of poses which utilizes personalized filtering on multiple data points. It also incorporates predictive

Yoga History

The science of Yoga has its origin thousands of years ago, long before the first religion or belief systems were born. According to Yogic lore, Shiva has seen as the first yogi or ādiyogi and the first guru or ādiguru. Several thousand years ago, on the banks of lake Kantisarovar in the Himalayas, ādiyogi poured his profound knowledge into the legendary saptarishis or "seven sages". These sages carried this powerful Yogic science to different parts of the world including Asia, the Middle East, northern Africa and South America. Interestingly, modern scholars have noted and marvelled at the close parallels found between ancient cultures across the globe. However, it was in India that the Yogic system found its fullest expression. Agastya, the saptarishi who travelled across the Indian subcontinent, crafted this culture around a core Yogic way of life.

Yoga is widely considered as an "immortal cultural outcome" of the Indus Saraswati Valley Civilisation – dating back to 2700 BC – and has proven itself to cater to both material and spiritual uplift of humanity. A number of seals and fossil remains of Indus Saraswati Valley Civilisation with Yogic motifs and figures performing Yoga sādhana suggest the presence of Yoga in ancient India. The seals and idols of mother Goddess are suggestive of Tantra Yoga.
The presence of Yoga is also available in folk traditions, Vedic and Upanishadic heritage, Buddhist and Jain traditions, Darshanas, epics of Mahabharata including Bhagawadgita and Ramayana, theistic traditions of Shaivas, Vaishnavas and Tantric traditions. Though Yoga was being practiced in the pre-Vedic period, the great sage Maharishi Patanjali systematised and codified the then existing Yogic practices, its meaning and its related knowledge through Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.

After Patanjali, many sages and Yoga masters contributed greatly for the preservation and development of the field through welldocumented practices and literature. Yoga has spread all over the world by the teachings of eminent Yoga masters from ancient times to the present date. Today, everybody has conviction about Yoga practices towards the prevention of disease, maintenance and promotion of health. Millions and millions of people across the globe have benefitted by the practice of Yoga and the practice of Yoga is blossoming and growing more vibrant with each passing day.

Famous Personalities

Jaggi Vasudev

Born into south indian family in 1957, Jaggi Vasudev is one of the most well-known Indian practit

Swami Sivananda Saraswati

Swami Sivananda Saraswati is the author of over 200 books on yoga, Vedanta and other topics and s

B. K. S. Iyengar

B. K. S. Iyengar was one of the most renowned Indian practitioners and one of the foremost expone

Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

T Krishnamacharya is often called as the father of modern Indian yoga. He is also credited with r