User:Iṣṭa Devatā

Iṣṭa Devatā is a Wikipedia contributor with an M.A. in Yoga Studies from Loyola Marymount University and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is a practitioner and teacher of yoga. He has made pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the Camino de Santiago, Pipestone National Monument, and the holy Ganges river, where he has basked in the company of countless holy people.

His main contributions are to pages concerning the practices of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jain Yogas. This includes the history, mythology, anatomy, physiology, and related philosophies and metaphysics. He is also interested in anatomy, comparative mythology, archaeoastronomy, and tantra.

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A few places you might see my contributions around wikipedia:

Adi Shankara

Alvars

Anjaneyasana

Anuloma pranayama

Ardha Candrāsana

Asana

Avadhuta

Avalokiteśvara

Balarama

Bhakti movement

Bhakti yoga

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

Bhujangasana

Bodhisattva

Brahma

Brahman

Brahmanda Purana

Celiac plexus

Chhetri

Citta

Drishti (yoga)

Eka Pada Koundinyasana I

Evil eye

Garbhasana

Gaudiya Vaishnavism

Harbhajan Singh Khalsa

Hare Krishna (mantra)

Hatha yoga

Hiranyagarbha

Isvarakrsna

Japa

Kamrupi Brahmins

Kriyā (disambiguation)

Kundalini

Kundalini yoga

List of asanas

List of yoga schools

Madhvacharya

Malasana

Mana

Manipura

Mantra

Matsyendranath

Maya Sita

Moksha

Myofascial pain syndrome

Mālāsana

Mīmāṃsā

Nadi (yoga)

Natarajasana

Nath

Nathamuni

Noble Eightfold Path

Operation Blue Star

Prana

Pranayama

Ramanuja

Samkhya

Samskara (ayurvedic)

Sasakasana

Sasangasana

Sritattvanidhi

Svātmārāma

Tulsidas

Ujjayi breath

Vajrayana

Vibhuti

Viniyoga

Yoga

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Iṣṭa Devatā (talk) 18:24, 16 October 2015 (UTC)