Transform Your Life with Yoga
Discover healing, connection, and inspiration at Yamas Yoga.
Transform Your Life with Yoga
Discover healing, connection, and inspiration at Yamas Yoga.
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Yamas means “moderation” in Sanskrit. Religious texts of Hinduism and Jainism outline five social values and moral codes known as the Yamas. In the Indian sage Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras treatise, Yamas are the first limbs of yoga in the Ashtanga yoga system —also called the eight-limbed path.
The Patanjali Yoga Sutra introduces the eight-limbed system, a holistic framework for integrating yoga into daily life. The foundation of yoga is based with the yamas (universal ethics), followed by niyamas (personal observances), asanas (physical postures), pranayamas (breath control), pratyahara (sensory withdrawal), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), and ultimately, samadhi (ultimate self-realization).