Sivananda yoga Sivananda yoga Sivananda yoga, after teachings of Swami Sivananda, is a non-proprietary form of hatha yoga in which the training focuses on an integrative approach to yogic disciplines. Sivananda Yoga is a school of traditional Hatha yoga, developed in the 20th century. It teaches the 4 paths of yoga; karma, bhakti, raja and jnana yoga. Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh followed Vivekananda's vision of yoga as having four parts, but asanas became more important in his teaching. His pupils, especially including Swami Vishnudevananda in Canada from 1959, helped to set up Sivananda Yoga Centres around the world. Tony Sanchez, a founder
Karma in the current life, as well as the nature and quality of future lives - one's "saṃsāra". "Karma" is the executed "deed", "work", "action", or "act", and it is also the "object", the "intent". Wilhelm Halbfass explains karma (karman) by contrasting it with another Sanskrit word "kriya". The word "kriya" is the activity along with the steps and effort in action, while "karma" is (1) the executed action as a consequence of that activity, as well as (2) the intention of the actor behind an executed action or a planned action (described by some scholars as metaphysical residue left in