How do you work with the yamas and niyamas?
On Tuesday afternoon I spent an hour in a coffee shop near the studio with a teacher trainee, talking about the first two of yoga’s eight limbs, the restrictions (yamas) and the observances (niyamas). The yamas are the great vow of yoga, non-violence, truth, non-stealing, Brahmacarya, which is often translated as celibacy, and non-grasping, or […]
Release your grip by practicing aparigraha
How ironic that the subtlest and hardest to grasp of all the yamas, the moral restrictions that make up yoga’s ethical code, should be aparigraha – non-grasping. We can understand why grasping is harmful when we see a miser, or a person who takes at the expense of others. We can even see some of […]