Eight Limbs of Yoga

Eight watercolour images of trees, with the text 'The eight limbs of yoga' at the top.

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are a series of 196 short statements (sutras) concerning yoga. I’ll go into the sutras in more detail as I work my way through them in my own learning, but I first of all wanted to introduce the Eight Limbs of Yoga, which form part of the Yoga Sutras. Over the next few weeks I’ll be introducing the limbs and my current understanding of them.

Have you read the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali? Is there a particular translation or version you like best?

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