Yogini (Sanskrit: योगिनी, IAST: yoginī) is a female master practitioner of tantra and yoga, as well as a formal term of respect for female Hindu or Buddhist spiritual teachers in Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Greater Tibet
The term is the feminine Sanskrit word of the masculine yogi, while the term “yogin” IPA: [ˈjoːɡɪn] is used in neutral, masculine or feminine sense
A Yogini, in some contexts, is the sacred feminine force made incarnate, as an aspect of Parvati, and revered in the yogini temples of India as the Sixty-four Yoginis