{"id":722,"date":"2018-11-22T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:07:45","slug":"what-are-the-4-types-of-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/what-are-the-4-types-of-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the 4 types of yoga?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are so many different\u00a0types of yoga<\/em>, whether you want a more physically demanding class or an easy, relaxing, meditative class.\u00a0\u00a0Rishikesh Vinyasa Yoga School is the best place to learn more about yoga.<\/p>\n

There are five causes of suffering:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Not knowing who we are<\/li>\n
  2. Attachment: Clinging to things that are impermanent and having expectations<\/li>\n
  3. Aversion: Trying to avoid things that are not real<\/li>\n
  4. Identifying with the ego and creating separate realities<\/li>\n
  5. Fear of death<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    4 types of yoga:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    1. Bhakti Yoga
    \n2. Karma Yoga
    \n3. Gyana Yoga
    \n4. Raja Yoga<\/p>\n

    Eight Limbs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Yama<\/li>\n
    2. Niyamas<\/li>\n
    3. Asanas<\/li>\n
    4. Pranayama<\/li>\n
    5. Pratyahara<\/li>\n
    6. Dharana<\/li>\n
    7. Dhyana<\/li>\n
    8. Samadhi<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      There are so many different\u00a0types of yoga, whether you want a more physically demanding class or an easy, relaxing, meditative class.\u00a0\u00a0Rishikesh Vinyasa Yoga School is the best place to learn more about yoga. There are five causes of suffering: Not knowing who we are Attachment: Clinging to things that are impermanent and having expectations Aversion: Trying to avoid things that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rishikeshvinyasayogaschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}