Iyengar Yoga basic words
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20 terms
Sanskrit | English |
|---|---|
| urdhva |  upward |
| mukha | face |
| svana | dog |
| adho | Downward |
| danda | stick/staff/rod |
| paripurna | Entire, complete. |
| paramatma | Supreme Self, God |
| nirodhah | Stilling, cessation, restraint |
| chitta | mental, consciousness, The mind in its total or collective sense, being composed of three categories: (a) Mind, having the faculty of attention, selection and rejection; (b) Reason, the decisive state which determines the distinction between things and (c) Ego, the I-maker. |
| vrtti | fluctuation |
| abhyasa | earnest dedicated practice |
| vairagya | dispassion, second of 4 means to salvation. ability to detach from all that is temporary, freedom from desire |
| yama | universal moral commandments(also the Hindu god of death-weird) |
| niyama | self purification by discipline |
| asana | posture |
| pranayama | rhythmic control of the breath |
| pratyahara | withdrawal and emancipation of the mind from the domination of the senses and exterior objects |
| dharana | concentration |
| dhyana | meditation |
| samadhi | a state of super-consciousness brought about by profound meditation, in which the individual aspirant (sadhaka) becomes one with the object of his meditation - Paramatma or the Universal Spirit |
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