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What is yoga?
🗸🗸🗸: yoke," meaning to join together- Union yoga
means stillness of the mind
Union of body, mind, and spirit
Patanjali
🗸🗸🗸: the Father of modern yoga and the yoga sutras
Yoga Sutra,
🗸🗸🗸: Written at least 1,700 years ago, it's made up of 195 aphorisms (sutras), or words
of wisdom.
asana
🗸🗸🗸: body posture*
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,what is yoga for?
🗸🗸🗸: a mental practice during which there is opportunity to work through stress,
emotional issues, anxiety or psychological challenges. Yoga practice encourages
mindfulness, or creating awareness.
the matt is your mirror
Ashtanga
🗸🗸🗸: "8 limbs" (ashta= eight, anga = limb)
what are the 8 limbs
🗸🗸🗸: -Yamas - sense of ethics and our personal integrity
-Niyamas- personal observances and self-discipline
-Asanas- are yoga poses
-Pranayamas- is breathing
-Pratyahara -is self observation and controlling our senses- work on outside distractions
-Dharana- is concentration- inside distractions- focus on one point
-Dhyana- is meditation- stillness of the mind
-Samadhi- to stand outside of
what are the five rules to Yamas
🗸🗸🗸: -the golden rule/ how we react to others -Ahimsa- practice of non-violence/non
harming others and the self
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,-Satya- is the practice of truthfulness
-Asteya - practice of non-stealing
-Brahmacharya- is moderation, or the proper use of energy
Aparigraha- is practicing non-attachment/ appreciating because it can be fleeting
what are the five niyamas
🗸🗸🗸: -how we react to ourself/help ourselves. -Saucha- is the practice of purification/
cleansing
-Santosha- is the practice of contentment
-Tapas- practicing discipline and austerity
-Svadhyaya-is the practice of self study/ alone time
-Ishvara Pranidhana- is devotion, dedication and surrender to the Highest Love
karma yoga
🗸🗸🗸: To do this, we have to take the benefits we receive from our practice and give
them as an offering.
we experience a connection with a power greater than ourselves. This is the oneness,
the surrender, that is Ishvara Pranidhana.
examples: community classes,charity benefits or some other form of giving or donation
Purusharthas (for purpose of the soul): 4 Aims of Life
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, 🗸🗸🗸: -they build on one another AND balance and theme a yoga class with
this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Moksha- full liberation (be yourself, calm in the storm)
-Dharma- essentially means duty (talents, born into, title, responsibilities you choose ie.
like a dog)
-Artha- is prosperity (how to carry out your dharama)
- Kama- is pleasure find balance
between the 4 aims of life
4 Noble truths
🗸🗸🗸: -Dukkha, which means that life is suffering.
-Samudaya, that we create our own suffering in our minds.
-Nirodha, the end of suffering, which means the end of wanting, craving or desiring.
-Marga, -which is the 8-fold path that leads to the cessation of suffering.
4 Aspects of True Love:
🗸🗸🗸: - Maitri-It is benevolence or loving kindness
-karuna- which means compassion
-mudita- which means joy
-Upekesha- which means freedom or equanimity
Bhagavad Gita
🗸🗸🗸: -The Bhagavad Gita, often known simply as the "Gita"
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Correct Answers | Latest Update | Already
Graded A+
What is yoga?
🗸🗸🗸: yoke," meaning to join together- Union yoga
means stillness of the mind
Union of body, mind, and spirit
Patanjali
🗸🗸🗸: the Father of modern yoga and the yoga sutras
Yoga Sutra,
🗸🗸🗸: Written at least 1,700 years ago, it's made up of 195 aphorisms (sutras), or words
of wisdom.
asana
🗸🗸🗸: body posture*
1|Page
,what is yoga for?
🗸🗸🗸: a mental practice during which there is opportunity to work through stress,
emotional issues, anxiety or psychological challenges. Yoga practice encourages
mindfulness, or creating awareness.
the matt is your mirror
Ashtanga
🗸🗸🗸: "8 limbs" (ashta= eight, anga = limb)
what are the 8 limbs
🗸🗸🗸: -Yamas - sense of ethics and our personal integrity
-Niyamas- personal observances and self-discipline
-Asanas- are yoga poses
-Pranayamas- is breathing
-Pratyahara -is self observation and controlling our senses- work on outside distractions
-Dharana- is concentration- inside distractions- focus on one point
-Dhyana- is meditation- stillness of the mind
-Samadhi- to stand outside of
what are the five rules to Yamas
🗸🗸🗸: -the golden rule/ how we react to others -Ahimsa- practice of non-violence/non
harming others and the self
2|Page
,-Satya- is the practice of truthfulness
-Asteya - practice of non-stealing
-Brahmacharya- is moderation, or the proper use of energy
Aparigraha- is practicing non-attachment/ appreciating because it can be fleeting
what are the five niyamas
🗸🗸🗸: -how we react to ourself/help ourselves. -Saucha- is the practice of purification/
cleansing
-Santosha- is the practice of contentment
-Tapas- practicing discipline and austerity
-Svadhyaya-is the practice of self study/ alone time
-Ishvara Pranidhana- is devotion, dedication and surrender to the Highest Love
karma yoga
🗸🗸🗸: To do this, we have to take the benefits we receive from our practice and give
them as an offering.
we experience a connection with a power greater than ourselves. This is the oneness,
the surrender, that is Ishvara Pranidhana.
examples: community classes,charity benefits or some other form of giving or donation
Purusharthas (for purpose of the soul): 4 Aims of Life
3|Page
, 🗸🗸🗸: -they build on one another AND balance and theme a yoga class with
this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Moksha- full liberation (be yourself, calm in the storm)
-Dharma- essentially means duty (talents, born into, title, responsibilities you choose ie.
like a dog)
-Artha- is prosperity (how to carry out your dharama)
- Kama- is pleasure find balance
between the 4 aims of life
4 Noble truths
🗸🗸🗸: -Dukkha, which means that life is suffering.
-Samudaya, that we create our own suffering in our minds.
-Nirodha, the end of suffering, which means the end of wanting, craving or desiring.
-Marga, -which is the 8-fold path that leads to the cessation of suffering.
4 Aspects of True Love:
🗸🗸🗸: - Maitri-It is benevolence or loving kindness
-karuna- which means compassion
-mudita- which means joy
-Upekesha- which means freedom or equanimity
Bhagavad Gita
🗸🗸🗸: -The Bhagavad Gita, often known simply as the "Gita"
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