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    In the Ashtanga Yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. In Jain meditation, samadhi is considered one...
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    asana (yoga postures), pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (absorption)...
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    older traditions. The Yoga Sutras is best known for its reference to ashtanga, eight elements of practice culminating in samadhi. The eight elements are...
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  • (one reaching samadhi). The Hatha Yoga Pradipika, for example, states that Hatha yoga is one of the ways to achieve Rāja yoga. Rāja yoga is discussed in...
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  • programs are based on the breathing technique Sudarshan Kriya, meditation and yoga. This technique is a major part of Art of Living courses. These courses have...
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    tantras, while some medieval hatha yoga texts use "yoganidra" as a synonym for the deep meditative state of samadhi. These texts however offer no precedent...
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    In Hinduism, Sikhism, and Sufism a samadhi (samādhi) or samadhi mandir is a temple, shrine, or memorial commemorating the dead (similar to a tomb or mausoleum)...
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    commentary on the Yoga Sutras) says that yoga means samadhi (concentration). Larson notes that in the Vyāsa Bhāsy the term "samadhi" refers to "all levels...
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    in 1975 and established the Kriya Yoga Institute in Homestead, Florida. List of yoga schools Khecarī mudrā Samadhi In accordance with Pāṇini, Vyasa (who...
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    Raja Yoga is a book by Swami Vivekananda about "Raja Yoga", his interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras adapted for a Western audience. The book was...
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  • Dhāraṇā (category Eight limbs of yoga)
    "Seeking Samadhi". Yoga Journal. 29 August 2007. "Dharana". yoga.iloveindia.com. "The Yoga System". Swami-krishnananda.org. "Dharana | 8 Limbs of Yoga". United...
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    withdrawal (pratyahara) and the other (auxiliaries of yoga, i.e. dhyana, pranayama, dharana, anusmrti and samadhi), then, having forcefully (hathena) made the...
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    Asana (redirect from Yoga posture)
    and for meditation, where meditation is the path to samadhi, transpersonal self-realization. The Yoga Sutras do not mention a single asana by name, merely...
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    Dhyana in Hinduism (category Eight limbs of yoga)
    means contemplation and meditation. Dhyana is taken up in Yoga practices, and is a means to samadhi and self-knowledge. The various concepts of dhyana and...
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    ISBN 9781465479358. Moksha gita. Divine Life Society. 1982. Samadhi yoga. The Divine Life Society. 1983. Yoga samhita. Divine Life Society. 1984. The Brihadaranyaka...
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    many programs such as Siddha Samadhi Yoga (SSY), Kaya Kalpa Kriya (KKK), Advanced Meditation Course (AMC), Bhava Samadhi Training (BST), Hundred Percent...
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  • Bhava Samadhi is a state of ecstatic consciousness that can sometimes be a seemingly spontaneous experience, but is recognized generally to be the culmination...
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    yoga (consisting of self-discipline, self-study, devotion to God, dhyāna, and samādhi), tantric visualization and meditation techniques of laya yoga (known...
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    Chapter 4 deals with meditation and samadhi as a journey of personal spiritual growth. It runs in the line of Hindu yoga (as opposed to the Buddhist and Jain...
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    Vasishta Yoga Samhita (Sanskrit: योगवासिष्ठम्, IAST: yoga-vāsiṣṭham; also known as Maha-Ramayana, Arsha Ramayana, Vasiṣṭha Ramayana, Yogavasistha-Ramayana...
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  • Such steps are claimed by Yoga school as leading to samādhi, a state of deep awareness, release and bliss called kaivalya. Yoga, or mārga (meaning "way"...
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    Ashtanga vinyasa yoga is a style of yoga as exercise popularised by K. Pattabhi Jois during the twentieth century, often promoted as a dynamic form of...
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    Siddha Yoga is a spiritual path founded by Swami Muktananda (1908–1982). According to its literature, the Siddha Yoga tradition is "based mainly on eastern...
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  • Samyama (category Yoga concepts)
    its usefulness. Beginner's mind Isha Yoga Insight Jnana yoga Dhāraṇā (concentration) Dhyāna (meditation) Samadhi Siddhi Sanskrit-English Dictionary by...
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    of Nirvikalpa Samādhi is experienced. Exercises for the Sahasrāra Chakra are: Shirshasana Vrikshasana Khatu Pranam Chanting Om Kriya Yoga There are also...
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    change or disappear during ecstasy. Samādhi: yoga provides techniques to attain a state of ecstasy called samādhi. According to practitioners, there are...
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    Sanjeevana Samadhi on 8 September 1910, which is thought to be a process of voluntary withdrawal from one's physical body. This date of his Samadhi is commemorated...
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    Yogic practices. The Eight Limbs of the yoga sutras show Samadhi as one of its limbs. The Eight limbs of the Yoga Sutra was influenced by Buddhism. Vyasa's...
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  • meditative union (samadhi) at a comparable level of detail. The book has been called an important forerunner of the major guides to modern yoga by B. K. S....
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    Jnana yoga (IAST: Jñāna yoga), also known as the jnana marga (jñāna mārga), is one of the three classical paths (margas) for moksha (liberation) in the...
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