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Imagine that for a few minutes, you could not use your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, or skin to gather feedback form everything around you. What would be left?

Most simply, for our purposes today, asana is the physical practice of yoga. It’s what you see on the covers of yoga magazines, what you see in Hollywood films, what you scroll through on Instagram. The thing about asana is that it’s not properly represented by “pop-yoga”.

onsider these five guidelines “personal ethics” of the yoga world. While yamas are the “don’ts”, niyamas are the “dos”.

Directly translated from Sanskrit, “yama” means “self-restraint”. Consider these five guidelines “universal ethics” of the yoga world. They are basically the “don’ts”.

I would argue that most of us from the Western world immediately think of the physical aspect of yoga: the poses. Moving your body through space. And many people don’t realize that the physical part of yoga (called asana) is just a small piece of a much larger whole.