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The History Of Yoga

Teacher: Styles Yoga
Across
Cleansing and purifying rituals.
The guna of darkness and inertia.
Nonstealing
The path of devotion.
Austerity/Discipline
The path of wisdom or knowledge.
The word yoga has its first mention in this scripture.
The guna of the mind and the cognitive senses.
Postures
In this text, which dates back as early as 800 to 500 B.C.E, yoga was referred to as a discipline used or path taken to achieve liberation from suffering.
Emerging early in the post-classical period, the practitioners of this yoga philosophy believed uniting the male and female energy to be a means of achieving liberation.
Breath control
Nongreed
The guna of gross motor responses and physical experience.
Cleanliness
He is often considered as the father of yoga.
The sacred scriptures of Brahmanism which date back at least 3,500 years.
Tantra and Hatha yoga emerged during this era of yoga.
Down
Meditation
Nonviolence
Contentment
Contains 5 ethical disciplines to live by.
Patanjali said to follow this path which will guide you to final liberation.
Became radical when it taught that the visible world was not a manifestation of the Divine.
The era of yoga during which the Yoga Sutra emerged.
This script advocated a three-pronged approach to liberation: Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, and Bhakti Yoga.
Collection of 195 aphorisms.
The era of yoga during which the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita surfaced.
This civilization began to decline around the same time the actual word "yoga" surfaced.
Abstinence
Truthfulness
Withdraw from the senses
Self-study
The path of service.
Concentration
A spiritual teacher.
True Liberation
Contains 5 ethical behaviors to live by.
The physical posturers we practice now emerged from this form of yoga.