by TAadministrator | Jun 25, 2018 | Habits
The fourth of the five Yamas is brahmacharya, which translates often as celibacy or continence. This can be debated on many levels and some of the older discussions go into the withholding of seminal fluid or feminine sexual energy and how it can be translated into...
by TAadministrator | Jun 23, 2018 | Habits
The third of the five is Yamas is Asteya, means non-stealing or non-grasping. In the wonderful commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (which lays out the practice of yoga, of which the Eight limbs are a part), Sri Swami Satchidananda describes Satya and Asteya as...
by TAadministrator | Jun 21, 2018 | Habits
The second of the five Yamas is Satya, which means truthfulness. This is really about whether you engage with people in a way that means you are being honest and truthful. Can you live a life of truthfulness? There are some discussions of these ancient yogic texts...
by TAadministrator | Jun 19, 2018 | Habits
The first of the five yama’s which are essentially a set of ethical standards about how you treat others, is ahimsa. The pre-fix ‘a’ in Sanskrit, like in English indicates ‘non’ or without. So the word AHIMSA translates as non-violence or not causing pain. This yama...
by TAadministrator | Jun 18, 2018 | Habits
There are eight limbs of yoga – ashtanga (ashta – 8, anga – limbs). My favorite book to discuss this is BKS Iyengar’s book The Tree of Yoga. In it he articulates the eight limbs as parts of a tree and draws this beautiful analogy between the elements...
by TAadministrator | Jun 16, 2018 | Habits
I went to a yoga workshop many years ago and the teacher, at a point when we were all holding a really hard pose, said, you know why I encourage you to keep calm and breathe steadily? We all raised our eyes, like yeah, really? When are we going to be released from the...
