Astangas of Yoga

🔹On the cover page of yoga books we always see the display of complex body postures..

🔹There is a Yoga era for healthy, shapely and beautiful body in each and everywhere...also a tight competition between gym and yoga studios world wide..

🔹But do you know these all involving regular breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, slow progressive result, with a transformation of our whole life..

🔹Nowadays many shocking news especially about young energetic active celebrities, suddenly passing away while doing exercises or regular fitness trainings..

 🔹Do you know these majority cases are because of lack of proper breathing practice,relaxation in regular intervals. How many of us know Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, with a focus on the psychological concepts and techniques designed for controlling the ,processes of mind, which form the core of Yoga psychology.

🔹Pictures seeing in majority Yogic representation is only one of the limb among eight limbs in (ashtangas) in Patañjali yogasutra. Let's know the Astangas of  Yoga 

Have you heard about the word mind river?, it is the literal word for mental process according to Vyasa,the first and foremost commentator of the Yoga sootra. Yoga is the cessation of the mental process (citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ).

 Mental processes involved in this context in cognitive processes like those of thinkings,imagining, doubting, inquiring, deciding, dreaming etc

Patañjai

🔹not invented Yoga but give a to do manual based on practice

🔹short, only concepts and techniques given.

Astangas of Yoga:

Patañjali presents an eightfold(aṣṭāṅga) path of Yoga. The eight ‘limbs’ involve the following:

1. Yama:

a set of behavioural restraints such as non-violence,avoidance of telling lies, etc, mental purification

2. Niyama:

a set of rights , such as cleanliness, gratitude,ascetic practices, self-awareness and everything from God etc.

3. Āsana:

a steady and comfortable posture,usually considering as Yoga now a days

4. Prāṇāyāma:

 breath control,residing in an asana.

5. Pratyāhāra:

going inside, withdrawal of sense organs from objects, insight

6. Dhārṇā:

restricting the range of attention or concentration,

7. Dhyāna:

sustaining attention for long time.

8. Samādhi:

a  higher level of consciousness raising to elevate the soul.

(The concept of citta vṛtti essentially involves two elements—first, citta meaning md and,second, vṛtti meaning processes.

RefWhat is mind river.. Chitta vrithi )

So next we can move to the Yogic personality on next blog till then

Namasthe.. With love AnnaNathasha 🙏🏻