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Is your practice honoring your body or trying to conquer it?

Ahimsa means non-harming, the first ethical principle. Every forceful adjustment, pose pushed past pain - violations.

How do you practice ahimsa on your mat?

Western yoga kept the Instagram poses and lost the inquiry.

Yoga crossed oceans early 1900s. Western fitness wanted results. Ethics were harder to sell.

What do you think got lost when yoga became Westernized?

Western yoga kept the Instagram poses and lost the inquiry.

Yoga crossed oceans early 1900s. Western fitness wanted results. Ethics were harder to sell.

What do you think got lost when yoga became Westernized?

Is your practice honoring your body or trying to conquer it?

Ahimsa means non-harming, the first ethical principle. Every forceful adjustment, pose pushed past pain - violations.

How do you practice ahimsa on your mat?

I practiced yoga five years before a teacher asked about the other seven limbs.

I'd been doing asana. Not ethics or philosophy. One-eighth.

Did your yoga classes teach you about the eight limbs, or just the poses?

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