Yoga Sutras Week 9 - The Niyamas
We did the Yamas last week, did we not? We looked into the Yamas. So overall, yeah— The Yamas are really a continuation, they’re a little bit different, they’re kind of inner observances that really lead to our liberation from our own programming — The feeling that they use to describe the whole process is setting yourself free from yourself . And again, falling back into the flow of life, falling back into the heart. Shaucha – Purification So, this first word is Shaucha . And Shaucha means purity or purification . Of course, I don’t know what you’ve read about this — I don’t know, “bathe regularly”? That’s something, yeah? Lovely. It’s really nice. But in any case — bathing is good. But then there’s internal purification in there too. Like your asana practice — that could also be seen as internal purification. You’re dealing with your inner body — not just the surface, but you massage your organs, you rebalance, you flush things through with your blood flow...