Yoga vs. Meditation — What's the Difference?

Yoga (; Sanskrit: योग; ISO: Yōga , pronunciation), Sanskrit for "yoking" or "union", is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines that originated in ancient India. Yoga is one of the six orthodox philosophical schools of Hinduism.

Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. Scholars have found meditation elusive to define, as practices vary both between traditions and within them.

Also Yoga An ascetic Hindu discipline involving controlled breathing, prescribed body positions, and meditation, with the goal of attaining a state of deep spiritual insight and tranquility.

The act or process of meditating.

A system of stretching and positional exercises derived from this discipline to promote good health, fitness, and control of the mind.

A devotional exercise of or leading to contemplation.

Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.

A contemplative discourse, usually on a religious or philosophical subject.

The tree Elaeocarpus joga.

A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation.

A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.

A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.

Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility that is achieved through the three paths of actions and knowledge and devotion

A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.

A system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind

Careful and thorough thought.

The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.

Thought; - without regard to kind.

Continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature;

(religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)