enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_(eight_limbs_of_yoga)

   Patanjali set out his definition of yoga in the Yoga Sutras as having eight limbs (अष्टाङ्ग aṣṭ āṅga, "eight limbs") as follows: The eight limbs of yoga are yama (abstinences), niyama (observances), asana (yoga postures), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana ...

3. Ashtanga Namaskara - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_Namaskara

   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 ...

4. Ashtanga vinyasa yoga - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtanga_vinyasa_yoga

   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. Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras_of_Patanjali

   The Yoga Sutras were compiled in the early centuries CE, by the sage Patanjali in India who synthesized and organized knowledge about yoga from much older traditions. [1] [2] [3] The Yoga Sutras is best known for its reference to ashtanga, eight elements of practice culminating in samadhi.

6. Yoga as exercise - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_as_exercise

   Yoga as exercise is a physical activity consisting mainly of ... Posture is described in the Yoga Sutras II.29 as the third of the eight limbs, the ashtanga, of yoga.

7. Category:Kriyas - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kriyas

   Ashtanga is defined with 8 limbs and 10 sublimbs; Kriya is defined with only 3 of the Ashtanga sublimbs. The most compact spiritual exercise set in Yoga (philosophy) is such a Kriya, with exactly these three required components. In Hatha Yoga, the term kriya is also used for single exercises that could be integrated into any threefold spiritual ...

8. Niyama - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyama

   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 ...

9. Pratyahara - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyahara

   Pratyahara [1] [2] (Sanskrit: प्रत्याहार, romanized: Pratyāhāra) or the 'gathering towards' is the fifth element among the Eight stages of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga, [3] as mentioned in his classical work, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali composed in the 2nd century BCE. [4]