History and Foundations Flashcards
Non-violence: one of the yamas
Ahimsa
Non-hoarding; one of the yamas
Aparigraha
Physical practice of yoga
Asana
The practitioner who seeks truth and an end to suffering
Aspirant
Non-stealing: one of the yamas
Asteya
Ignorance: one of the kleshas
Avidya
System of medicine that’s based on the belief that disease begins as an imbalance or stress in a person’s consciousness (Johns Hopkins University)
Ayurveda
Moderation: one of the yamas
Brahmacharya
The fluctuations of consciousness
Chitta Vritti
Concentration: the first state of being before reaching the state of meditation (dhyana)
Dharana
Meditation – a state of being, not a practice
Dhyana
The ability to choose the most appropriate path based on all the factors at hand
Discernment
A protocol for reaching enlightenment and liberation through the ancient wisdom of yoga
Eight-limbed path of yoga
The most important and intrinsic values within your being
Essential values
The energetic forces that affect our lives and take us through the cycles of nature: rajas, tamas, and sattva
Gunas
The art of leveraging the solar and lunar aspects of the human to bring balance
Hatha yoga
Devotion to a higher power
Isvara pranidhana
Obstacles to our practice: veils of illusion that begin with ignorance (avidya)
Kleshas
A practice of contentment and non-suffering
Liberation
Derived of right knowledge, perception, verbalization, and the misconception that nothing exists
Memory
Psychological practice or self-study of looking back on our thoughts
Metacognition
The five observances; spiritual practices
Niyamas
Judgments based on previous experiences that are shaped and molded from other people’s projected opinions and the experiences that go along with them
Perceptions
Matter that goes through the cycles of life such as wood, bodies, and food
Prakriti
Breath of life
Prana
Physical control of the breath that’s meant to remove mental disruptions and create a calm mind for meditation
Pranayama
Withdrawal of the senses
Pratyahara
One’s perspective on reality
Projection
The soul as reflected by the intellect
Pure Awareness
God, spirit, divinity, light
Purusha
A turning away from, or an attachment to, the fruits of our labors; one of the gunas
Rajas
Royal yoga of devotion and renunciation
Raja yoga
The truth, derived from witnessing, from inference, or from a trusted source
Right knowledge
The second book of the yoga sutras, on practice
Sadhana Pada
Union with the Divine Source
Samadhi
The first book of the yoga sutras which lays out the psychology of the human
Samadhi Pada
Patterns and loops of consciousness, perception, behaviors, and relationships
Samskaras
An intention
Sankalpa
Contentment: one of the niyamas
Santosha
Feeling of balanced contentment; one of the gunas
Sattva
Truthfulness, one of the yamas
Satya
Purity of being; self-awareness; one of the niyamas
Saucha
The perception that nothing exists, a perpetual autopilot
Sleep
The waking state, the dream state, the sleep state, and enlightenment
States of consciousness
Self-study: one of the niyamas
Svadhyaya
Inertia or lethargy, one of the gunas
Tamas
Austerity: one of the niyamas
Tapas
The stories we create around our perceptions
Verbalizations
Intellect, memory, positive thoughts, and insecurities
Vritti
Social obligations
Yamas
The union of spirit and experience: a yoking, coupling, marriage
Yoga
