What Is Ashtanga Yoga and Benefits?
In Sanskrit, "Ashtanga" signifies "eight appendages" which are gotten from the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. By Patanjali, this yoga is the procedure of investigating one's own particular personality and making it encounter the higher cognizance. By, it is the individual exertion set forth to comprehend own identity and distinction. Through this procedure, one needs to face and comprehend one's own tendency, character, propensities, and gets to be mindful of the own impediments of the body. This happens in the initial two appendages. Body conditions are enhanced and empowered through the following two. After the fourth stage, one is prepared to watch the brain and discover the restrictions and characteristics of the psyche. Through the following four procedures, one encounters the heavenliness inside by channelizing the considerations and feelings. From other perspective, it enhances nature about you by taking a gander at the circumstances in the right viewpoint and managing the circumstances with right disposition. When you encounter the awareness, which is past the body and the psyche, you get to be unified with the nature and presence. Through and through, it is the general improvement of the person in the trip of life.

Couple of Asanas in Ashtanga Yoga (just few are recorded)
• Surya Namaskara (Sun Salutation)
• Marichyasana
• Navasana
• Badha Konasana
• Supta Konasana
• Kukutasana
• Pavanmuktasana
• Halasana
• Mathsyasan
Benefits of Ashtanga yoga
• yama (moral restraints) – Experience your relation with fellow beings
• niyama (observances) – Experience the relation with the self
• āsana (posture) – Observe reaction of body and mind, its synchronization
• prāṇāyāma (breath extension) – Breathing techniques to active body and brain cells
• pratyāhāra (sensory withdrawal) – Control the sense organs
• dhāraṇā (concentration) – Control the faculty of sense organs
• dhyāna (meditation) – Experiencing the consciousness beyond the mind
• samādhi (meditative absorption) – Realizing and the union with the Self