Concentrating the gaze or attention on a specific external point, such as a candle flame.

A posture where muscles and/or organs are contracted or constrited to drive energy to a specific area.

An enema or colon cleansing technique. 

Part of the famous Hindu epic 'Mahabharata' - Teachings of Lord Krishna to his disciple Arjuna at the commencement of the battle of Kurukshetra, with explanations on sannyasa yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga.

Devotion

The yoga practice of devotion.

The breathing technique in which breath is forcibly drawn in and out through the nose in equal proportions, like the pumping action of the bellows.

The breathing practice where a soft humming or buzzing sound is produced during exhalation to stimulate the Ajna Chakra

The Cobra yoga pose.

The absolute consciousness - absolute reality.

Edgar Cayce, (1877-1943) known around the world as America's Sleeping Prophet, and the father of holistic medicine. He began his unusual career in 1900 when he first used his talent to help himself recover from loss of voice or aphonia. Through a series of events best described in Story of Edgar Cayce: There Is a River by Thomas Sugure and Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick he finally came to accept his gift and in 1925 he moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia where he lived and gave readings until his death in 1944.

For the first 22 years of his career he gave nothing but health readings, many copies of which were lost or not kept. It was not until 1925 that more controversial and sensational subject matter, such as information on past lives and past civilizations, began to emerge, causing him and his family considerable embarrassment as well as the financial difficulties that plagued him until the end of his life. He left behind records of 14,306 known readings, 9,603 of which are health related.

The most successful Cayce medical story to date is the work of retired New Jersey chiropractor John O.A. Pagano, who after 20 years of documenting success with cases of psoriasis, finally published the results of his work in Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative. The so-called incurable psoriasis responds within 4 to 6 months to the Cayce regimen developed by Pagano, providing both the answer to the cause of the disease, and the treatment as well.

Scleroderma, another so-called incurable disease, appears in the readings, the cause and treatment illuminated through the suffering of a Hopkinsville resident who had been diagnosed at Mayo and whose 16 readings (528 series) illustrate the cause and treatment. Stricken at age 26, she followed the instructions given in readings until she was completely cured, living well into her 80's.

The Cayce information, now on CD-ROM, is available for any researcher interested in finding the answers to many physical ailments and spiritual questions.

Edgar Cayce is buried in Riverside Cemetery in his hometown of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, but his legacy and work live on around the world.

Circle or wheel, in yoga this refers to the energy centers lying along the confluence of the nadis or energy channels.

Moon

ida nadi

Psychic space in front of the closed eyes, behind
the forehead.

Hand movement where the first finger is placed on the root of the thumb, the last three fingers are unfolded.

Stick

One of the cleansing techniques (shatkarmas), used to clean the esophagus with a stick.

Teeth Cleaning Technique.

Bow pose - backward bend yoga posture.

A practice of concentration; sixth of the eight fold path
in ashtanga yoga.

Duty, the righteous path.

Second of the shatkarmas; cleansing technique of the eyes, ears, tongue, forehead, esophagus, stomach, rectum and anus.

Meditation - single-pointed focus of mind on either a form, thought or sound.

Initiation given by the guru or teacher.

The three humors of the body; see kapha, pitta, vata.

A nasal irrigation or cleansing technique using milk.

Cow face posture.

Yogi Gorakhnath's' pose.

Quality of nature -  tamas, rajas, sattwa.