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Eight Limbs Of Yoga Flashcards

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What are Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Hatha Yoga?

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Associated with Ashtanga Yoga and Raja Yoga

  1. Yama
  2. Niyama
  3. Asana
  4. Pranayama
  5. Pratyahara
  6. Dharana
  7. Dhyana
  8. Samadhi
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Yama

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External discipline

Bahya yoga (Gross yoga)
Abhyantara yoga (Subtle yoga)
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Bahya yoga

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Gross yoga

Contains Limbs 1-4

  1. Yama
  2. Niyama
  3. Asana
  4. Pranayama
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Abhyantara yoga

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Subtle yoga

Contains Limb 5
5. Pratyahara

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Yamas

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How to be a productive member of society; a way to interact with the world

There are five Yamas in Pantanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga

  • Ahimsa
  • Satya
  • Brahmacharya
  • Asteya
  • Aparigraha
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Ahisma

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Nonviolence - nonvolatile of thought, words, and action

Prioritize humans, but of all things

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Satya

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Truthfulness - truthfulness is the non-telling of lies and maintaining truthfulness to self ore than anything else or anyone

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Brahmacharya

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Attitude of moderation - moderation of sensory indulgences

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Asteya

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Non-stealing - at the physical and mental level

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Aparigraha

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Non-covetousness - non-possessiveness and non-acceptance of undue gifts and bribes

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Niyamas

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Observances for peace; Internal practices, ways to treat the self

  • Saucha
  • Santosha
  • Tapas
  • Swadhyaya
  • Ishwarapranidhana
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Saucha

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Cleanliness - external and internal, through hygiene and the kriyas; mental, physical, spiritual and emotional in nature

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Santosha

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Contentment - satisfaction of higher degree; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual

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Tapas

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Heat of practice - Tapas can be physical in the form of fasting, abstaining from physical involvement, or performing asanas; at the mental level by performing japa, rituals, and nonviolence; at the spiritual level by performing fire ceremonies, taking sacred vows, sankalpa, etc

Fire

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Swadhyaya

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Study of Self - through the study of scriptures, inquiry, and contemplation

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Ishwara Pranidhana

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Surrender to Divinity - surrendering to all the experiences (good and bad), limit ego, fruits of practice to the lineage of realized beings

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Asana

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Physical seat, postures

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Pranyama

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Expansion of prana

(unpreferred) breath control

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Pratyahara

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Redirection of the 5 senses

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Samyama

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Internal Mastery

One of the two branches of Ashtanga Yoga

Antara yoga (casual yoga)

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Antara yoga

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Casual Yoga

Contains limbs 6-8

  1. Dharana
  2. Dhyana
  3. Samadhi
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Dharana

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Focus

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Dhyana

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Meditation

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Samadhi

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Absorption

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