Yoga Sutra 2.32 Niyamas: Enthusiasm - tapas
Tapas is an invitation to participate in every moment with passion and motivation.
Tapas is the fire that helps us overcome our tendency to predict and to assume that we already know what will happen. Tapas is also the heat resulting from the friction or going against the grain of our habits. Concentration, another meaning of tapas, is necessary to notice if your habits are useful or harmful.
Yoga Sutra 2.32 Niyamas: Contentment - samtosha
Do you find reasons to complain, or reasons to be content?
What conditions are you putting on yourself, your life and others? What do you need in order to feel happy? Can the practice of gratitude open a door to contentment?
Yoga Sutra 2.32 Niyamas: Clarity - shaucha
Clarity (shaucha), Contentment (santosha), Enthusiasm (tapas), Wisdom (svadhyaya) and Humility (ishvara pranidhana)
Are there any sensations, thoughts and emotions that indicate you are aligning with purity in your choices, actions and interactions? When you pay attention to the results of your actions is there anything in the results indicating the purity of your motivation?
Yoga Sutra 2:30 Yamas: Abundance and simplicity - aparigraha
The fact that you are alive confirms that at every point in your life, whatever you needed to move forward was within your reach.
How much do I really need? To what extent does what I have contribute to enhance the quality of my life? What level of maintenance do my possessions require? Do I own what I have or does what I have own me? To what extent am I cultivating simplicity in my life?
Yoga Sutra 2.30 Yamas: Curiosity and reverence for life (brahmacharya)
Studying the mystery of existence, honoring the absolute and following supreme wisdom.
Brahmacharya is an invitation to become one with the life force all around you. How am I cultivating life affirming thoughts, attitudes, actions and interactio
Yoga Sutra 2.30 Yamas: Fairness and Generosity - Asteya
Is your attitude regarding the resources available to you one of entitlement or gratitude?
What are the differences between what you want, expect and need? How do you know the difference? How do these ideas relate to the notion of fairness and generosity? How you contribute to affirm life and how you strengthen the connections among all beings, from the most minuscule to the largest?
Yoga Sutra 2.30 Yama Integrity (Satya)
Satya is being whole in your thoughts, intentions, movements, words, actions and interactions.
What is your true nature? How do you honor your true nature in your thoughts, words, actions and interactions? What type of activities are most conducive to connecting to your wholeness in mind, heart and body?
Yoga Sutras 2.30 & 2.31 The Yamas, wise ways of reducing tension
Love, Integrity, Fairness and Generosity, Curiosity and Reverence for Life, Abundance and Simplicity.
A great universal vow to appreciate and honor the interdependent nature of life in all forms and manifestations. Every tiny step towards applying the yamas, creates the opportunity to see yourself and the world around you in a new light and through a different lens.
Yoga Sutra 2.29 The eight limbs of yoga
Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi
what does your practice consist of? Which limbs of yoga do you prefer to practice? Why? Does your current practice create a balance between body, mind and emotions? How is your practice contributing to the quality of your participation in your life?
