Glossary

Addiction

An obsessive need felt by a person for a particular activity. It is believed that sometimes it can b...

Affirmation

(from Latin affirmatio - confirmation) is a short phrase containing a verbal formula, which, when re...

Ahimsa

Avoiding killing and violence, causing harm by action, word and thought; the fundamental virtue of a...

Aparigraha

Aparigraha translated from Sanskrit – अपरिग्रह – non-possession. Not hoarding, not owning or not acc...

Asana

Body position.

Ascete

A person who leads a lifestyle that involves restrictions in receiving pleasure and using material g...

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

One of the modern systems of hatha yoga. He interprets that yoga should not be adapted to the weakne...

Asteya

Non-appropriation of someone else's or the principle of non-theft.

Astral

The general name for a certain space in which reality is manifested only at the energy level. The re...

Atman

The eternal, unchanging spiritual essence of man.