Yoga by the eight-directional integration

"Father of Yoga" Maharishi Patanjali in the Yoga classic "Yoga Sutra", the advocate yoga is a body of eight directions (Eight Limbs), they are:

Prohibition (Yama) - the moral precepts, including the non-violence, restraint, integrity, non-stealing, non-greedy.

Advise system (Niyama) - to maintain piety, self-cultivation and self-cleaning. Including clean, contentment, self-cultivation, reading, praying.

Sitting method (Asana) - yoga postures.

Pranayama (Pranayama) - breath control and energy processing.

System Influenza (Pratyahara) - Speech to practice meditation, convergence feeling and it is a preparatory exercise before the concentration power. Rule out the minds of this, his mind from the senses and external objects freed.

Sticking (total holding, Dharana) - focused concentration in order to enhance the life of gas, is the preparation before the gong meditation.

Meditation (peaceful contemplation, Dhyana) - that is meditation, to enhance the life of the gas.

3 (Samadhi, Samadhi) - from the depth of thinking to achieve the super-conscious state.