Yoga Concepts

This article is based on the notes I made on various Yoga Concepts during my 200Hrs Yoga Teachers Training Certification.

These notes were created for the purpose of easy to comprehend Key Concepts of Yoga and Organized them to keep the flow of concepts in logical order(or flow of topics connecting/referring each other).

Please consider this page as Table of Contents for all the articles related to Yogic Concepts:

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