Patanjali Yoga Sutra – Sadhana Pada – Eight limbs of Yoga
2.29.Yamaniyamasanapranayamaprtayahara
dharanadhyanasamadhayo’stavangani|
- Yama-self restraints
- Niyama-fixed rules
- Asana-postures
- Pranayama-breath control
- Pratayahara-sense withdrawl
- Dharana-concentration
- Dhyana-meditation
- Samadhai-samadhi
- Asta-eight
- Angani-parts
Personal ethics, social ethics, postures, breath control practice, sense withdrawl from its sense objects, concentration, meditation and samadhi or supersonsciouness, constitute the eight limbs of yoga discipline.