Do?s and Don'ts of Yoga

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#1

What are Do?s and Don’ts while practicing Yoga?

#2

From the Yoga Sutras Chapter 2:

  1. Non violence, truth, non stealing, conservation of vital forces, and non possessiveness are the yamas-universal disciplines.

  2. The universal disciplines are applicable irrespec-tive of one’s state of life, place, time, or circum-stance.

  3. Purity, contentment, intensity in spiritual practice, practice of learned personal mantras, and align-ment of attention with the Eternal Self—the wit-nessing consciousness—are the internal disciplines, the niyamas.

#3

@ aashton
Could you clarify the question for me please?
Are you asking about Yoga or about Asana?

Gordon

#4

[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;77380]@ aashton
Could you clarify the question for me please?
Are you asking about Yoga or about Asana?

Gordon[/QUOTE]

Just asking about the general Yoga not Asana.

I want to say in that question what we should do in Yoga while practicing and what we should avoid.
For example we should not wear tight cloths and the place where you are going to study must be spacious, airy, pollution free, warm and with not so bright lights.

#5

[QUOTE=aashton;77352]What are Do?s and Don’ts while practicing Yoga?[/QUOTE]

Aashton,
Yoga is a quite big field. It is not big, specifically, only in terms of its traditional types as authentic and originated in India but also in terms of commonly practiced Yoga styles worldwide.
Asking a question - ‘What are Do’s and Don’s of Yoga while practicing Yoga’? will be vague and remain unanswered in its true sense asking, untill/unless the same question is asked in light of specific type or style of Yoga on one side and; age, gender, state health and disease and aspriration(s), need(s), purpose of doing Yoga on other side.

#6

[QUOTE=Ryan Kurczak;77365]From the Yoga Sutras Chapter 2:

  1. Non violence, truth, non stealing, conservation of vital forces, and non possessiveness are the yamas-universal disciplines.

  2. The universal disciplines are applicable irrespec-tive of one?s state of life, place, time, or circum-stance.

  3. Purity, contentment, intensity in spiritual practice, practice of learned personal mantras, and align-ment of attention with the Eternal Self?the wit-nessing consciousness?are the internal disciplines, the niyamas.[/QUOTE]

I think this is the perfect answer. Yamas and niyamas, restraints and observances, the do’s and don’ts of yoga.

#7

@aashton
The things you list are etiquette not rules. The rules of Yoga are that the human being continue self exploration, do so with a clean intention, effort to see through the innate veil of human ignorance, and do so without harming others with the hope of contributing to the world as we know it.

If you’d like to do asana in spandex who is to tell you not to?
If you find a messy space contributes to your growth and facilitates your ability to focus the mind, then who is to tell you “no”?

Each style of practice may have suggest methods for practice including the environmental factors. And indeed I personally find a quiet indoor space that is clean to be far more product than a pig sty but the practice is the practice and we are growing in such a way as to be able to maintain it (live it) both anywhere and everywhere.