Favourable for religious and spiritual activities. This page lists every Shiva Yoga in 2026 with its begin and end timings for your location.
Name: auspicious, benevolent
Shiva means auspicious or benevolent, and the Yoga is read plainly through that name — as a generally favourable time with a particular leaning toward religious and spiritual activity. It belongs to the auspicious group and carries none of the specialised caution attached to any inauspicious entry.
Muhurta texts favour Shiva for worship, spiritual practice and religious ceremony specifically, while also treating it as broadly suitable background timing for auspicious undertakings of other kinds.
Yes — its name means auspicious or benevolent, and Muhurta texts particularly favour it for worship, spiritual practice and religious ceremony, alongside its broader suitability for auspicious undertakings generally.
A Nitya Yoga is one of 27 periods based on the sum (not the difference, as with Tithi) of the Sun's and Moon's longitudes, each 13°20' wide. It is distinct from the special Muhurat Yogas also listed under /yogas (like Ravi Yoga or Sarvartha Siddhi Yoga) — those are formed by a combination of Tithi, Nakshatra, and Vaara, whereas a Nitya Yoga is one of the five ever-present core elements of the Panchang.
