🔯🌺Astanga Yoga 🌺🔯 🌳 Rāja yoga is traditionally referred to as aṣṭānga (eight-limbed) yoga because there are eight aspects to the path to which one must follow.The eight limbs of astanga yoga are: 🌳 Yama – social codes of conduct, self-restraint 🌳 Niyama – personal codes of conduct, self-restraint 🌳 Āsana – integration of mind and body through physical activity 🌳 Prāṇāyāma – regulation of breath leading to integration of mind and body 🌳 Pratyāhāra – abstraction of the senses, withdrawal of the senses of perception from their objects 🌳 Dhāraṇā – concentration, one-pointedness of mind 🌳 Dhyāna – meditation (quiet activity that leads to samadhi) 🌳 Samādhi – the quiet state of blissful awareness, superconscious state. Attained when yogi constantly sees Paramatma in his (jivaatma) heart. 🌺 They are sometimes divided into the lower and the upper four limbs, the lower ones—from yama to pranayama—being parallel to the lower limbs of hatha yoga, while the upper ones—from pratyahara to samadhi—being specific for the rāja yoga. 🌺 The upper three limbs practiced simultaneously constitute the samyama. 🌺🌺🌺🌳🌳🌳🌺🌺🌺
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:26:50 +0000