Word: 'yoga' • Extended Annotations

yoga

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Ancestral Lore of yoga

from Sanskrit योग (yoga) "the act of yoking, joining, union"

from PIE root *yeug- "to join"

yoga noun

a mystic and ascetic Hindu discipline by which one seeks to achieve liberation of the self and union with the supreme spirit or universal soul through intense concentration, deep meditation, and practices involving prescribed postures, controlled breathing, etc.
a system of exercising involving the postures, breathing, etc. practiced in this discipline

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