• Astanga or Power Yoga -- modern day variations of yoga developed for people who prefer a physically demanding workout.

• Bhakti Yoga -- the goal of this form of yoga is to take all of the love in one's heart and direct it to God. By worshiping God, the person who practices regularly becomes filled with respect for all life and is encouraged to be sacrificial and to treat others generously.

• Bikram Yoga -- a series of 26 asanas (postures) practiced in a room that is 105 degrees in order to warm and stretch the muscles, ligaments, and tendons and to detoxify the body through sweat.

• Hatha Yoga -- the most commonly practiced form of yoga in the United States today. Emphasis is placed on physical postures or exercises, known as asanas, with the goal of balancing the opposites in one's life. During Hatha yoga sessions, flexing is followed by extension, a rounded back is followed by an arched back, and physical exercises are followed by mental meditations.

• Iyangar Yoga -- emphasizes great attention to detail and precise alignment. This often requires the use of props such as blocks and belts while performing postures.

• Jnana Yoga -- emphasizes deep contemplation. Practitioners seek Jnana, or "wisdom," through meditation. The goal of this form of yoga is to be one with God.

• Karma Yoga -- based on the philosophy that "yesterday's actions determine today's circumstances." Practitioners of Karma yoga make a conscious decision to perform selfless acts of kindness. By making today's actions positive, they hope they can improve tomorrow's circumstances for both themselves as well as others.

• Raja Yoga -- known in India as "the royal (raj) road to reintegration." The goal of this type of yoga is to blend the four layers of self: the body, the individual consciousness, the individual subconsciousness, and the universal and infinite consciousness. Raja yoga, being most concerned with the mind and spirit, places its emphasis on meditation.

• Tantra Yoga -- like Hatha yoga, practitioners of Tantra yoga seek to balance the opposites in their lives. They also try to break free of the "six enemies" (physical longing, anger, greed, vanity, obsession, jealousy) and the "eight fetters" (hatred, apprehension, fear, shyness, hypocrisy, pride of ancestry, vanity of culture, egotism) by using discipline, training, and rituals.

• Mantra Yoga : Mantra Yoga is concerned, in the main, with the acquisition of one or the other material or mental power or powers through the constant repetition of a particular mantra or oral formula in order to attract the presiding power or deity to which the mantra relates, and then to press that power into service, good or bad, according to the will and pleasure of the practitioner.

• Laya Yoga : This is the yoga of absorption or mergence. Laya literally means to lose oneself in some overpowering idea or a ruling passion. By a deep and continued absorption through concentration, one is gradually led to a state of forgetfulness of everything else, including the bodily self, and to having only one thought uppermost one's mind, which is the objective before him for realization.
In Laya Yoga, the approach is of a negative type. Instead of controlling the mind as yoga systems generally do, it concentrates on controlling the Kundalini, the vital energy, which lies hidden and latent, and it is perhaps because it deals with a latency that it is termed as Laya Yoga.