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Yoga therapy; Contemporary view

The eight-fold path advocated by Patanjali is not easy to follow. So, modern yoga therapists have remodeled it in user-friendly manner to make available its benefit to the majority of the population. Practice of asanas are meant for...

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Ashtanga Yoga

Ashtanga Yoga has its origin traced back to Vedic philosophy. However, the concept has been objectively classified into eight-fold pathway by Maharishi Patanjali in his book ‘Yoga sutra’. They are classified as under: Yama i.e. principle of moral...

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Patanjali’s Yoga: A traditional viewpoint

Maharshi Patanjali in his masterpiece ‘Yogasutra’ described how one can use yoga to obtain maximum benefits from it. According to him, as long as a person’s behaviour is subject to environmental forces, he is prone...