{"id":3411,"date":"2026-08-05T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:07:00","slug":"3411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/3411\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EIGHT LIMBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After thousands of years of individuals practicing yoga under the direction of a teacher or guru who would orally pass down the traditions that guru had learned from their own teacher, a basic path was put into writing. Around 200 AD the text, the YOGA SUTRA, appeared. It is attributed to Patanjali, although it might have risen through a group effort. Little is known of its origins. Some consider it a response to the growing popularity of Buddhism to remind spiritual seekers of the reach of yoga beyond what they perceived as the goals of Buddhist teachings.<\/p>\n<p>The YOGA SUTRA describes a basic system for the practice of yoga, an eight-limbed path for fostering connection to the divine.<\/p>\n<p>WEIGHT LOSS THROUGH YOGA, JEWEL IN THE LOTUS &nbsp; &nbsp;page 71.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/58154_567286853315754_1455177916_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3412\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/58154_567286853315754_1455177916_n.jpg\" alt=\"58154_567286853315754_1455177916_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/58154_567286853315754_1455177916_n.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/58154_567286853315754_1455177916_n-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After thousands of years of individuals practicing yoga under the direction of a teacher or guru who would orally pass down the traditions that guru had learned from their own teacher, a basic path was put into writing. Around 200 AD the text, the YOGA SUTRA, appeared. It is attributed to Patanjali, although it might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.weightlossthroughyoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}