yoga

Summary

yoga ranks in the top 0.39% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,275 views/month, #306 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• yoga is a type of physical exercise^[2].
• yoga is a type of spiritual practice^[3].
• yoga is a type of mind–body interventions^[4].
• yoga is part of intangible cultural heritage^[5].
• yoga's Commons category is recorded as Yoga^[6].
• yoga's country of origin is recorded as India^[7].
• yoga comprises asana^[8].
• yoga comprises Pranayama^[9].
• yoga comprises meditation^[10].
• yoga's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Yoga^[11].
• yoga's described at URL is recorded as https://ayurwiki.org/Ayurwiki/Category:Yoga^[12].
• yoga's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Yoga^[13].
• yoga's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as sport=yoga^[14].
• yoga's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[15].
• yoga's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• yoga's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia^[17].
• yoga's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary^[18].
• yoga's topic has template is recorded as Template:Yoga^[19].
• yoga's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://fitness.stackexchange.com/tags/yoga^[20].
• yoga's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C64897^[21].
• yoga's different from is recorded as Ioga^[22].
• yoga's different from is recorded as Yoga^[23].
• yoga's different from is recorded as yogurt^[24].
• yoga's history of topic is recorded as history of yoga^[25].
• yoga's practiced by is recorded as yogi^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include physical exercise^[2], spiritual practice^[3], and mind–body interventions^[4].

Use and Application

Components include asana^[8]; Pranayama^[9], a breathing technique^[27]; and meditation^[10], a concept^[28]. yoga is part of intangible cultural heritage^[5].

Influence

Things named for yoga include Kundalini yoga^[29].

Why It Matters

yoga ranks in the top 0.39% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,275 views/month, #306 of 77,819).^[1] yoga has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] yoga is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for yoga include Kundalini yoga^[29].