YOGA SUTRA SANGHA - FRIDAY, MAY 1st, 4:30-6:00pm (CST)
TOPICS: Yamas and Niyamas - Moral Precepts and Self Disciplines
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READ YOGA SUTRAS II.28-45, Second Chapter (Sadhana Pada)
Questions for Contemplation and Discussion:
Yoga is a discipline and practice. What keeps you motivated to practice, and when facing a challenge with some Yama or Niyama how do you “cultivate the opposite” intention? What tools have your yoga practice given you to observe and respond to both positive and negative traits within your Nature?
The Yamas are the “Universal Vows unconditioned by place, time, and class”. We are challenged to look at these moral precepts from our most gross outer actions in the world to our most subtle internal sensitivities. Have you identified or uncovered certain Yamas at any level that are more easily or more difficult to follow in your current place, time, or class? Niyamas are our personal observances. Like the Yamas, we cannot get caught up at the surface of their meanings, but dig deep into the layers of our experience to “remove impurities” and gain wisdom. What are the Niyamas that have posed challenges or have been supports to your practice of yoga and/or discrimination between purusa and Prakrti?
How do you see the Yamas and Niyamas as foundations to and supports for how you approach your practice of Asana? Each Yama and Niyama has a “result” if “perfected”. How have any efforts through yoga, to change the way you are in the world or in the ways you relate to yourself, resulted in some transformation that was expected or unexpected?
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