Ancient Roots of Modern Yoga

Yoga comes from a wide and deep river of ancient tradition. Its many currents flow from a complex history of... (choose all that apply)

• Spiritual Exploration

• Philosophical Reflection

• Scientific Experimentation

• Spontaneous Creative Expression

The origins and development of yoga come to us from... (Choose all that apply)

• Ancient texts

• Oral transmission (yogic or spiritual lineages)

• iconography (visual images and symbols)

• dance

"Vedas" means...

• prayer

• meditation

• knowledge

• gods

"Yoga" means "to yoke" or to...

• to add tension

• to add compression

• to stretch

• to make one

"Mantra" is..

• repetitive

  singing of certain sounds

• repetitive movements

• a level of consciousness

• an automatic response

Many of the Vedic hymns shared today in kirtan...

• led by practitioners of bhakti yoga

• call and response singing

• only on Sundays

• In special rooms

The Gayatri mantra is...

• Through the coming, going, and balance of life.

  The essential nature illuminating existence is the adorable one

  May all perceive through subtle intellect

  The brilliance of enlightenment

• From the oldest Veda

• taken from the Rig Veda

• highly revered in Hinduism

Check all that are true about the Upanishads...

• Estimated guesses that there are between 50 - 300

• Considered by some to be part of the Vedas

• Philosophy of Vedanta

• Philosophical dialogue on the nature of being and the fate the soul

Match the word with the definition.

• Life force

• Upanishad

• absolut

  infinite

• Prana

• Song of God

• Brahman

• The inner self

• Bhagavad Gita

• Sitting down beside

• Atman

Match

• being honest with ourselves &others

• Pantjali's answer to: What is yoga?

• to contain or to control

• Ahisma

• Blissful state of oneness with divine

• Satya

• Nonhurting

• yama

• to calm the fluctuations of the mind

• Samadhi