The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice

a more action-oriented type of yoga referred to here by Patañjali as kriyā-yoga and consisting of discipline, tapas; study, svādhyāya; and dedication to God, Īśvara-praṇidhāna.

some practitioners avoid the depth offered by the finishing poses, conceptualizing them as strictly therapeutic or restorative practices, which can create an imbalance toward an attachment to dissolution before there is actually anything to dissolve—in other words, before they have done the work. This can quickly become tamasic dullness in yoga. An

Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Like the healing light of the sun, yoga is beneficial equally to men of the East and to men of the West. The thoughts of most persons are restless and capricious; a manifest nee