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W. J. Johnson (2009): "A generic term for a wide variety of religious practices [...] At its broadest, however, 'yoga' simply refers to a particular method or discipline for transforming the individual [...] A narrower reading makes the practice contingent on, or derived from, control of the body and the senses, as in hatha-yoga, or control of the breath (pranayama) and through it the mind, as in Patañjali's rajayoga. At its most neutral, yoga is therefore simply a technique, or set of techniques, including what is usually termed 'meditation',

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