- Yama: one must achieve restraint from acts and thoughts that might harm others.
- Niyama: obedience, follow routines in cleanliness, study and obedience to God. Help channel attention into predictable patterns and hence make attention easier to control.
- Asana: ways of sitting and holding postures for long periods without succumbing to strain or fatigue.
- Pranayama: breath control, aims to relax the body and stabilizes the rhythm of breathing.
- Pratyahara: Withdrawal, learning to withdraw attention from outward objects by directing the input of the senses.
- Dharana : holding on, is the ability to concentrate for long periods on a single stimulus and thus is the mirror image of the earlier stage of pratyahara.
- Dhyana: one learns to forget the self in uninterrupted concentration that no longer needs the external stimuli of the preceding phase.
- Samadhi : self collectedness, when the meditator and the object of meditation become as one.
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