Over the last year, I began looking periodically at the yamas and niyamas, sets of guiding principles in yoga on living an ethical life. While both are part of the eight limbs of yoga, one way of differentiating between the two is thinking of the yamas as providing guidance on interacting…
Over the summer I continued looking at the eight limbs of yoga by looking at ahimsa, the first of the Yamas. The Yamas offer guidance for how an individual can interact with the external world. The second of the Yamas is satya, often translated to truthfulness. While it is speaking…
The fifth Niyama – one of the eight limbs of yoga that guides one on self-care and personal practice – is isvara pranidhana, which can be seen as faith in a higher power. Now that is a big topic, and I wasn’t even sure how to write about it. And…
We can all get lost sometimes inside our own heads – our own thoughts – but how often do we use that time spent with our thoughts as an opportunity for self-reflection? Svadhyaya, another one of the five Niyamas, is the study of one’s self. The Niyamas are the second…