(‘active’ yoga) the part of yoga practice which uses procedures requiring effort; a type of yoga which employs ritual as one of its techniques; a type of yoga which utilizes active involvement in life for spiritual progress, which may mean...

Kriya Yoga is a very specific system of Yoga that was revived in modern times by Lahiri Mahasaya, c 1861. Paramahansa Yogananda brought it into widespread public awareness through his book Autobiography of a Yogi. The system consists of a number of...