Full name: The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice

Author: Deborah Adele Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Spirituality, Yoga, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780974470641 0974470643

The first two limbs of the eight-fold path of yoga sutras - the basic text for classical yoga - are examined in this spiritual guide to the practice of yoga. Foundational to all yogic thought, they are considered to be the guidelines to the yoga way of living that free individuals to take ownership of their lives, direct them toward the fulfillment they seek, and gain the skills to choose attitude, thought, and action. The first five guidelines are referred to as the yamas - a Sanskrit word that translates to "restraints" - and encompass nonviolence, truthfulness, not stealing, nonexcess, and nonpossessiveness. The last five are referred to as the niyamas, or observances - purity, contentment, self-discipline, self-study, and surrender. A self-study section at the end of each chapter may also be used by instructors for group discussion. Similar books: The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards by Jen Hatmaker Faithfully Religionless by Timber Hawkeye Love Lives Here by Maria Goff Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall Journey of Souls by Michael Newton Confessions of an Instinctively Mutinous Baby Boomer by Marsha Roberts Bhakti Yoga by Swami Vivekananda Callings by Gregg Michael Levoy Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi On the Meaning of Life by John Cottingham One Thousand Gifts Study Guide by Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life by Wayne W. Dyer The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra Strengthen Yourself in the Lord by Bill Johnson Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage by Marianne Williamson Prayer by Timothy Keller