1, traditional yoga

Traditional yoga refers to the instruction of practicing patanjali Yoga Sutra. Because Indians follow the tradition of the guru, yoga in later generations is divided into many factions, each with its own differences.

2. Hada Yoga

Hatha Yoga. Teaching based on extreme breathing and physical exercise.

Pai, an ancient Hada yogi, is characterized by wearing earrings, abstinence, fasting, holding your breath, standing on one foot for a long time or raising your hand. In addition, sleeping on a nail bed, swallowing gauze to clean the esophagus and cleaning the bladder and anus are also common exercises for Hada yogis.

The ancient Hada yogis pursued the ultimate expression of the human body, and sometimes performed performances of squeezing the body into a small box and burying it underground for a few days to prove that the potential of the human body has been developed. In the 1950 s, there were still Hong Kong columnists writing columns in newspapers to teach them how to clean themselves through Hada yoga. In modern times, few people practice Hada yoga in this way.

Modern Hada yoga is generally regarded as the practice of posture, so all factions that emphasize posture can be summarized as Hada yoga.

3. Win Raja Yoga

Namely raja yoga. King wins yoga from the eight-step method introduced by patanjali Yoga, which emphasizes not pursuing extreme and parallel physical and mental exercises, especially paying attention to meditation and meditation, so as to achieve the goal of samadhi. At present, some temple groups in India still flaunt themselves as winners of King Yoga.

4. Wisdom Yoga

Jnana Yoga. Yoga explores truth with rational thinking and logical thinking.

5. Perfect Yoga

Bhakti Yoga. Pursue the pure love of Tao beyond emotion, rationality, and realize it through meditation, chanting, rigorous attitude towards life and positive kindness.

6. Sound Yoga

Mantra yoga. One of the many methods of yoga practice is adopted by many yoga factions, and their differences are religious singing, mantra chanting and secret mantra singing. Emphasize the unity of mind and body, focus on self-confidence when reciting. Long-term reciting often leads to readers' religious experience, and the effect is strong and simple, so all major sects attach great importance to this practice.

7.tantric yoga

Tantra yoga, the secret inheritance of mentoring for thousands of years, focuses on the development of life energy and the practice beyond the mortal realm. Tantra yoga is characterized by complex mandala mode, detailed religious ceremonies, undisclosed contents, the practice of using sexual energy to extract life energy, the practice of changing materials, the practice of using corpses, the practice of solar energy and so on.

8. Modern Yoga

According to the needs of modern physical and mental health, there are many kinds of yoga. Some factions emphasize unique exercise methods, some emphasize effects, some emphasize objects, and some are named after masters.

9. High temperature yoga

Bikram Yoga. The key point is to practice posture in the classroom where the temperature is as high as 40 degrees Celsius, and it is fun to sweat a lot. Occasionally, people have symptoms such as vomiting and collapse because of poor health. Because BikramYoga has patent problems, some high-temperature yoga exercises are called bikram yoga to avoid it. Different names have the same content, but operators will use better temperature and humidity control equipment to distinguish them.

10, soothing yoga

Restoration Yoga, a posture exercise with the main purpose of relaxing as much as possible, focuses on guiding the body to relax and relieve, mainly for people with insomnia and high stress. The famous Sivananda Yoga School is similar to this.

1 1, Iyengar Yoga

Yoga is named after Iyengar, a famous Indian national treasure. He is now over eighty years old and has been engaged in yoga teaching for decades. He is the most respected founder of yoga in the world today. His yoga practice is characterized by precise posture, emphasis on practice sequence, use of auxiliary equipment, etc. At present, he is also the yoga master who introduces breathing exercises most publicly.

12, Eight Yoga

Yoga Sect founded by SriK. PattabhiJois, and Master Pattabhi is a disciple of Master Iyengar. Astonga is characterized by strong and continuous posture exercises, emphasizing the coordination of movements and breathing, and adopting Ujayi breathing method. AshtangaYoga arranges several groups of continuous posture sequences according to the difficulty level, and each group takes one to two hours or even longer to complete completely, which contains many difficult movements. AshatangaYoga will make practitioners have strong confidence in their bodies.

13, Yoga for Two

Yoga, which features couples practicing postures in pairs, is non-sectarian, because yoga classrooms need to add curriculum features to attract students.

14, yoga for pregnant women

As the name implies, it is also because yoga classrooms need to add curriculum features to attract students.

15, parent-child yoga

Yoga postures for parents and children are also produced because yoga classrooms need to add curriculum features to attract students.

16, plastic rope yoga

General yoga asana exercises are supplemented by ropes and other instruments.

17, plastic ball yoga

General yoga asana exercises are supplemented by elastic balls and other equipment.