I reviewed in my previous posts the first two practices suggested in the eight-limbed path of yoga: yama and niyama. These are a set of values believed to bring a yoga practitioner into greater connection with his or her body and the greater world, practiced toward others as well as toward ourselves.
Read MoreToday I’d like to touch upon the second step in the 8-limbed path of yoga, the sister to Yama, known as the Niyamas. Yoga Journal gives a very vague definition of the Niyamas, stating merely that they “have to do with self-discipline and spiritual discipline.”
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