Yoga is an old discipline from India. Yoga uses breathing techniques, exercise and meditation. It claims to improve health and happiness.
Yoga is the Sanskrit word for union.
Patanjali was a pioneer of classical yoga. He defined yoga as "the cessation of the modification of the mind". (stopping changing the mind).
History
The Vedic Samhitas contain references to ascetics. Ascetic practices (tapas) are referenced in the Brāhmaṇas (900 to 500 BC), early commentaries on the Vedas.[1] Several seals discovered at Indus Valley Civilization (~3300–1700 B.C.) sites in Pakistan depict figures in positions resembling a common yoga or meditation pose. The pose shows "a form of ritual discipline, suggesting a precursor of yoga", according to archaeologist Gregory Possehl.[2] Scholars think there must be some type of connection between the Indus Valley seals and later yoga and meditation practices, though there is no conclusive evidence.
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer describes one figure as "seated in yogic position".[3]
Karel Werner writes that " Archeological discoveries allow us therefore to speculate with some justification that a wide range of Yoga activities was already known to the people of pre-Aryan India".[4]
Important yoga words (Eight Organs of Yoga)
Yama : Positive Rules of meditations
Niyama: Prohibitory Rules of meditations
Asanas: physical postures and movements
Pranayama: breathing techniques
Prtyahar: controlling the mind
Dharana: gazing inward
Dhyan: meditation with object
Samadhi: meditation without object
Types of yoga
Classification based on mind and body.
Rajayoga: Emphasizes the most on exercise
Hathayoga: Emphasizes the most on exercise of physical body.
Classification based on way of spiritual life.
Gyanyoga: It is a way of knowledge.
Karmayoga: It is a way of work.
Bhaktiyoga: It is a way of worship.
Classification based on a way of other things.
Swaryoga: Emphasizes the most on breathing.
Kriyayoga: Emphasizes the most on blending Karmayoga (Tapa), Gyanyoga (Swadhyay) and Bhaktiyoga (Ishwar Pranidhan).'
Yoga is the Sanskrit word for union.
Patanjali was a pioneer of classical yoga. He defined yoga as "the cessation of the modification of the mind". (stopping changing the mind).
History
The Vedic Samhitas contain references to ascetics. Ascetic practices (tapas) are referenced in the Brāhmaṇas (900 to 500 BC), early commentaries on the Vedas.[1] Several seals discovered at Indus Valley Civilization (~3300–1700 B.C.) sites in Pakistan depict figures in positions resembling a common yoga or meditation pose. The pose shows "a form of ritual discipline, suggesting a precursor of yoga", according to archaeologist Gregory Possehl.[2] Scholars think there must be some type of connection between the Indus Valley seals and later yoga and meditation practices, though there is no conclusive evidence.
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer describes one figure as "seated in yogic position".[3]
Karel Werner writes that " Archeological discoveries allow us therefore to speculate with some justification that a wide range of Yoga activities was already known to the people of pre-Aryan India".[4]
Important yoga words (Eight Organs of Yoga)
Yama : Positive Rules of meditations
Niyama: Prohibitory Rules of meditations
Asanas: physical postures and movements
Pranayama: breathing techniques
Prtyahar: controlling the mind
Dharana: gazing inward
Dhyan: meditation with object
Samadhi: meditation without object
Types of yoga
Classification based on mind and body.
Rajayoga: Emphasizes the most on exercise
Hathayoga: Emphasizes the most on exercise of physical body.
Classification based on way of spiritual life.
Gyanyoga: It is a way of knowledge.
Karmayoga: It is a way of work.
Bhaktiyoga: It is a way of worship.
Classification based on a way of other things.
Swaryoga: Emphasizes the most on breathing.
Kriyayoga: Emphasizes the most on blending Karmayoga (Tapa), Gyanyoga (Swadhyay) and Bhaktiyoga (Ishwar Pranidhan).'
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