Yogini

A yogini is the female equivalent to a practicing male yogi. Both enjoy the benefits of the disciplined pursuit of union with God through the practice of yoga. The intrinsic complexity and multi-faceted nature of the feminine finds a yogini embodying an array of archetypical energies—female aspects of the divine—that significantly differ from the pointed-focus practice of a male yogi. Yogini is a term that finds reference in several texts related to Hinduism, where its literal meaning is "sorceress" or wisdom seeker, a definition that could just as easily be interpreted as “alchemist,” or "angel of mercy." A woman dedicated to the pursuit of spiritual knowledge and mystical insight has many faces, from devotional to demure, and from fiery to fierce; all of these can be embraced under the rubric of a yogini. In some branches of tantra yoga, ten wisdom goddesses (or dakinis) serve as models for a yogini's disposition and behavior.
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n. yogi

[Hindu] In Hindu mythology, one of the eight female demons created by and attendant upon Durgha. Sometimes the yoginis are forms of that goddess, capable of being multiplied to as many as ten million.

Yogi yogin (Sanskrit) Feminine yogini. A devotee who practices a full yoga system; the yogi state is that which, "when reached, makes the practitioner thereof absolute master of his six 'principles,' he now being merged in the seventh. It gives him full control, owing to his knowledge of Self and Self, over his bodily, intellectual and mental states, which, unable any longer to interfere with, or act upon, his Higher Ego, leave it free to exist in its original, pure, and divine state" (TG 381).
More commonly, a practitioner of one or more various subordinate branches of yoga. There are many grades and kinds of yogis, and the term has become in India a generic name for every kind of ascetic. "In some cases, yogins are men who strive in various ways to conquer the body and physical temptations, for instance by torture of the body. They also study more or less some of the magnificent philosophical teachings of India coming down from far-distant ages of the past; but mere mental study will not make a man a Mahatma, nor will any torture of the body bring about the spiritual vision -- the Vision Sublime" (OG 183).

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