Reading room

Yoga Yājñavalkya

Yajnavalkya

A yoga treatise in twelve chapters and some five hundred verses in which Yājñavalkya teaches Gārgī the eight-limbed yoga: ten restraints and ten observances, postures, breath control, withdrawal of the senses, concentration, meditation and absorption, with a physiology of subtle channels (nāḍī) and vital winds. It influenced yoga practice before haṭha yoga and was revived in the twentieth century by T. Krishnamacharya and his students.