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History and Foundations Flashcards

1
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Non-violence: one of the yamas

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Ahimsa

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Non-hoarding; one of the yamas

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Aparigraha

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Physical practice of yoga

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Asana

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The practitioner who seeks truth and an end to suffering

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Aspirant

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Non-stealing: one of the yamas

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Asteya

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Ignorance: one of the kleshas

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Avidya

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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)

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Ayurveda

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Moderation: one of the yamas

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Brahmacharya

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9
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The fluctuations of consciousness

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Chitta Vritti

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Concentration: the first state of being before reaching the state of meditation (dhyana)

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Dharana

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Meditation – a state of being, not a practice

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Dhyana

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12
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The ability to choose the most appropriate path based on all the factors at hand

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Discernment

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13
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A protocol for reaching enlightenment and liberation through the ancient wisdom of yoga

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Eight-limbed path of yoga

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14
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The most important and intrinsic values within your being

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Essential values

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The energetic forces that affect our lives and take us through the cycles of nature: rajas, tamas, and sattva

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Gunas

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16
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The art of leveraging the solar and lunar aspects of the human to bring balance

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Hatha yoga

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17
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Devotion to a higher power

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Isvara pranidhana

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18
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Obstacles to our practice: veils of illusion that begin with ignorance (avidya)

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Kleshas

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19
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A practice of contentment and non-suffering

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Liberation

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20
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Derived of right knowledge, perception, verbalization, and the misconception that nothing exists

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Memory

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21
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Psychological practice or self-study of looking back on our thoughts

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Metacognition

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The five observances; spiritual practices

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Niyamas

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Judgments based on previous experiences that are shaped and molded from other people’s projected opinions and the experiences that go along with them

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Perceptions

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Matter that goes through the cycles of life such as wood, bodies, and food

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Prakriti

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Breath of life

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Prana

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Physical control of the breath that’s meant to remove mental disruptions and create a calm mind for meditation

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Pranayama

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Withdrawal of the senses

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Pratyahara

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One’s perspective on reality

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Projection

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The soul as reflected by the intellect

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Pure Awareness

30
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God, spirit, divinity, light

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Purusha

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A turning away from, or an attachment to, the fruits of our labors; one of the gunas

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Rajas

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Royal yoga of devotion and renunciation

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Raja yoga

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The truth, derived from witnessing, from inference, or from a trusted source

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Right knowledge

34
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The second book of the yoga sutras, on practice

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Sadhana Pada

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Union with the Divine Source

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Samadhi

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The first book of the yoga sutras which lays out the psychology of the human

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Samadhi Pada

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Patterns and loops of consciousness, perception, behaviors, and relationships

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Samskaras

38
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An intention

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Sankalpa

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Contentment: one of the niyamas

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Santosha

40
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Feeling of balanced contentment; one of the gunas

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Sattva

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Truthfulness, one of the yamas

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Satya

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Purity of being; self-awareness; one of the niyamas

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Saucha

43
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The perception that nothing exists, a perpetual autopilot

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Sleep

44
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The waking state, the dream state, the sleep state, and enlightenment

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States of consciousness

45
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Self-study: one of the niyamas

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Svadhyaya

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Inertia or lethargy, one of the gunas

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Tamas

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Austerity: one of the niyamas

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Tapas

48
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The stories we create around our perceptions

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Verbalizations

49
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Intellect, memory, positive thoughts, and insecurities

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Vritti

50
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Social obligations

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Yamas

51
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The union of spirit and experience: a yoking, coupling, marriage

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Yoga

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