 "Yogi" is technically male, and "yoginī" is the term used for female practitioners.The two terms are still used with those meanings today, but the word "yogi" is also used generically to refer to both male and female practitioners of yoga and related meditative practices belonging to any religion or spiritual method.The term yogini is also used for divine goddesses and enlightened mothers, all revered as aspects of the mother goddess, Devi.