<sod>The theory and practice of [[Yoga]], in different styles, has been a part of all major traditions of Hinduism, and Shiva has been the patron or spokesperson in numerous Hindu Yoga texts.<ref name=shivayoga1/><ref name=shivayoga2/> These contain the philosophy and techniques for Yoga that developed in and after the late centuries of the 1st millennium CE, in texts such as ''Isvara Gita'' (literally, "Shiva's song"), which Andrew Nicholson states have had "a profound and lasting influence on the development of Hinduism".<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew J. Nicholson|title=Lord Siva's Song: The Isvara Gita|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IAEvAwAAQBAJ|year=2014|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-1-4384-5102-2|pages=1–2}}</ref><eod>
<sod>The theory and practice of [[Yoga]], in different styles, has been a part of all major traditions of Hinduism, and Shiva has been the patron or spokesperson in numerous Hindu Yoga texts.<ref name=shivayoga1/><ref name=shivayoga2/> These contain the philosophy and techniques for Yoga that developed in and after the late centuries of the 1st millennium CE, in texts such as ''Isvara Gita'' (literally, "Shiva's song"), which [[Andrew J. Nicholson|Andrew Nicholson]] – a professor of Hinduism and Indian Intellectual History – states have had "a profound and lasting influence on the development of Hinduism".<ref>{{cite book|author=Andrew J. Nicholson|title=Lord Siva's Song: The Isvara Gita|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IAEvAwAAQBAJ|year=2014|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-1-4384-5102-2|pages=1–2}}</ref><eod>