Definitions for Yoga

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Yoga yo·ga

Spelling: [yoh-guh]

IPA: /ˈyoʊ gə/

Yoga is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Yoga (agoy).

Definitions for Yoga

noun

1. a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.
2. any of the methods or disciplines prescribed, especially a series of postures and breathing exercises practiced to achieve control of the body and mind, tranquillity, etc.
3. union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.

Origin of Yoga

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1810-20

Examples for Yoga

For a while yoga and pilates classes were sought out at luxury gyms like Equinox.

“I would go with yoga, light weight training or some elliptical,” he says.

yoga Rama produced a pack of cards and asked the Committee to see that it was unopened.

I have given an account of the nature of the performance with which yoga Rama favoured us.

Mr. Marriott was the first person to sit on the chair in front of yoga Rama.

yoga Rama immediately said, "Not your right hand but your left."

In order to be more at his ease, yoga Rama removed his turban.

Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.

Alison, meanwhile, had gone to a yoga retreat with her hippy-dippy mother.

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.