| The Origins of Yoga | | | | existence; Jnana (knowledge), Bhakti (devotion), and |
| When it comes to traditional mental and physical | | | | Karma (cause and effect). It was then that the Gita |
| disciplines of human practices, we come to the term | | | | tried to combine these three yogi traditions sacrificing |
| called yoga. Yoga originated from India and was | | | | ego through self-knowledge. |
| associated with practices in meditative religious | | | | - Classical Yoga - also classified as the Yoga Sutra |
| congregations branched in their philosophy. As of | | | | and was composed by Patañjali (known to be as |
| today, some people take yoga exercises for physical | | | | the founder of Yoga. He believed that every human |
| purposes and meditation. However, some people | | | | being is composed of Purusha (spirit) and Prakrti |
| believed that there is nothing wrong in implementing | | | | (matter) and to which, the goal of Yoga is to give spirit |
| yoga art as an exercise used in daily regiment | | | | its freedom from the material world. |
| promoting healthy living. | | | | - Asana - Physical activity |
| The yoga practice is merely more than a structure of | | | | - Dharana - Concentration |
| physical exercise for health. It was an ancient course | | | | - Dhyana - Meditation that leads to Samadhi |
| to spiritual growth which originated from India it is | | | | - Niyama - Religious and personal observance of |
| widely practiced. | | | | devotion, purity and study |
| The Paradigm of Yoga | | | | - Pratyahara - Abstraction of senses |
| The yoga history was based in the civilization of Indus | | | | - Pranayama - Breath regulation |
| Valley; the techniques they used were practiced to | | | | - Samadhi - Absorption in the sublime and blissful |
| initiate spiritual growth. The yogis encourages | | | | awareness |
| combination with the Atman (transitory self) the | | | | - Yama - ethical conduct or self-restraint |
| Brahman (eternal self). The Hindus used the term | | | | Post-Classical Yoga - the development of Hatha |
| Brahman to mean "GOD" which the Yogis thought that | | | | Yoga and other branches of yoga. The time where |
| God is a spiritual substance and impersonal that | | | | human body was considered as the temple of |
| co-exists with all of reality. This yogi doctrine was so | | | | immortal soul. |
| called pantheism that views everything is God. | | | | Modern Yoga - attributed to the yoga guru Swami |
| - The Pre-Classical Yoga - the creation of | | | | Vivekananda and taught the Five Yoga Principles. |
| Bhagavad-Gita. A mutually brought aspect in human | | | | |