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  2. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

  3. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Wikipedia

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    Aṣṭānga Yoga is the yoga of eight limbs. In chapter 2, five "indirect aids" for purification and aiding insight are outlined: 1. Yama – restraints or ethics of behaviour; Yama consists of: 1.1 Ahimsa (Non violence) 1.2 Satya (Truthfulness) 1.3 Asteya (Non stealing) 1.4 Brahmacharya (Chastity) 1.5 Aparigraha (Non possession) 2.

  4. Ashtanga vinyasa yoga - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga vinyasa yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of classical Indian (hatha) yoga. [1] Jois claimed to have learnt the system from his teacher Tirumalai Krishnamacharya .

  5. Noble Eightfold Path - Wikipedia

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    The Pali term ariya aṭṭhaṅgika magga (Sanskrit: āryāṣṭāṅgamārga) is typically translated in English as "Noble Eightfold Path".This translation is a convention started by the early translators of Buddhist texts into English, just like ariya sacca is translated as Four Noble Truths.

  6. Ashtanga - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga), the eight limbs of yoga as defined by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras; Raja yoga, Vivekananda's popularisation of Ashtanga Yoga; Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, a style of asana-based modern yoga founded and popularized by K. Pattabhi Jois; Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine, divided into eight limbs

  7. Rāja yoga - Wikipedia

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    The "eight limb yoga" is described in chapter 2 verse 28-55, and chapter 3 verse 3 and 54. [17] There are numerous parallels in the ancient Samkhya, Yoga and Abhidharma schools of thought, particularly from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century AD, notes Larson. [18] Patanjali's Yoga Sutras may be a synthesis of these three traditions.

  8. Ashtanga Namaskara - Wikipedia

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    Ashtanga Namaskara. Ashtanga Namaskara (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्ग नमस्कार), Ashtanga Dandavat Pranam [1] (अष्टाङ्ग दण्डवत् प्रणाम्), Eight Limbed pose, Caterpillar pose, [2] or Chest, Knees and Chin pose is an asana sometimes used in the Surya Namaskar sequence in modern yoga as exercise, where the body is balanced on eight ...

  9. Niyama - Wikipedia

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    Within the Yoga school of Hindu philosophy, niyamas are described in the eight limbs (steps; ashtanga yoga) of yoga. [7] Niyama is the second limb which includes virtuous habits, behaviors, and observances (the "dos"). [8] [9] These virtues and ethical premises are considered in Hinduism as necessary for an individual to achieve a liberation or ...