Hatha yoga and Swami Satchidananda of Integral Yoga. After about 1975, yoga techniques have become increasingly popular globally, in both developed and developing countries. The Bihar School of Yoga has been one of the largest Hatha yoga teacher training centers in India but is little known in Europe and the Americas. In the West, Krishnamacharya-linked schools have been more widely known. Examples of other branded forms of yoga, with some controversies, that make use of Hatha yoga include Anusara Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Bikram Yoga, Integral Yoga, Iyengar Yoga, Jivanmukti Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Kripalu Yoga, Kriya Yoga, Viniyoga, Vinyasa Yoga and White Lotus
Jnana Jnana In Indian philosophy and religion, jñāna (Sanskrit, pronounced gya:nə) (Pali: "ñāṇa") or gyan/gian (Hindi: "jñān") is "knowledge". The idea of jnana centers on a cognitive event which is recognized when experienced. It is knowledge inseparable from the total experience of reality, especially a total or divine reality (Brahman). The root jñā- is cognate to English "know", as well as to the Greek γνώ- (as in γνῶσις "gnosis") and Russian "знание". Its antonym is "ajñāna" "ignorance". In Tibetan Buddhism, it refers to pure awareness that is free of conceptual encumbrances, and is contrasted with vijnana, which is a moment of