17/05/2020
EIGHT PATHS OF YOGA
Yoga represents Eight main steps of exploring and practice of oneself
1. Yam / Social Discipline – teaches us how to live in a society.
2. Niyam / Individual Discipline – exploring and developing oneself.
3. Asana /Posture – steady, stable body posture which effect physical and energetic body.
4. Pranayam / Breath Control – teaching us propper breathing and controlling of life force.
5. Pratyahar / Discipaline of the Senses – shutting scences from the outter world to inner self.
6. Dharana / Concentration – the power of concentration, 'being' in the moment.
7. Dhyan / Meditation – When one sustains and maintains the focus of attention through Dharna unbound by time and space, it becomes Dhyana.
8. Samadhi / Self-realization – at this stage, one's identity becomes both externally and internally immersed in meditation/ meeting ones True Self.
The first five stages – Yam, Niyam, Asana, Pranayam, and Pratyahar – constitute the External – constitute the External Yoga. and the group of Dharana, Dhyan, and Samadhi is called ‘Samyama’ Internal Yoga in the Science of Yoga.
The path of yoga can be explored by these eight elements and many books can be read, so here I am only briefly describing / mentioning the basics.
