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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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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Maria_Magdalene_praying.jpg/50px-Maria_Magdalene_praying.jpg) This Wikipedian recites the Wiki Prayer regularly. | God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, The courage to edit the pages I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. |
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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)