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Product details Paperback 192 pages Publisher On-Word Bound Books; 40081st edition (September 1, 2009) Language English ISBN-10 0974470643

The Yamas Niyamas Exploring Yoga Ethical Practice Deborah Adele 8601404682759 Books Reviews

• For those who don't know what the yamas and niyamas are, they are much like the ten commandments of yogic spirituality. This book explains them and inspires the reader to practice them in daily life. The author has provide questions for journaling and reflection after each section. If you truly want to live an authentic life with purpose and in harmony with the world, read and keep this book close. Namaste
• This book is a good read with a lot of good insight, you don't have to be religious, a yogi, or anything like that to absorb a lot of good information from it. A lot of what the book touches on will improve anyone's life and outlook like detaching from the constant need to accumulate more and more, it just makes you nuts, declutter and simplify.
• It's taken me a while to get through the book, and now I'm going to start all over. As a public bus driver I am witness to a wide variety of humanity every day. Bring able to see past all of their carp so I can except each of them as light some days is a real challenge. Thanks for helping me along the way.
• In my opinion, this is the best and most important book on yoga to be released in a long time. Why? Because the ten yamas and niyamas -as specified by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras- are at the core of yoga and (I believe) essential for real personal growth. And yet they are given cursory treatment by many if not most yoga teachers in the west, who seem unaware of the subtle facets and profound qualities of these "jewels." And they are ignored by many of today's mental health professionals, who seem unaware that modern psychotherapeutic approaches are embedded in yoga's prescriptions for "ethical" practice of restraints and observances. Somebody really needed to write a book on this! And I must say, Deborah Adele really delivers the goods.
  
  Take for instance, Adele's chapter on Satya (truthfulness, honesty). It is a work of art in its own right, offering the wisdom and clarity one needs to liberate powerful forces within oneself. In this chapter, Adele includes the sensible yet unusual insights of Carl Jung, Yogiraj Achala, and Mahatma Gandhi, among others, along with her own hands-on understanding. In the process, Adele addresses, for all of us, the fear (dangerousness) involved with being completely truthful, the differences between "Nice" and "Real," the epic partnership between truth (satya) and nonviolence (ahimsa), and the value of conducting our own Gandhi-esque "experiments" in truth.
  
  There is so much more to this chapter than the glimpse I've given here, but I hope I've communicated the fact that this chapter (and the book as a whole) has great depth and breadth. It is evident that Adele has immersed herself in the yamas and niyamas, emerging with lessons, teachings, and insights that could be of value to anyone. Highly recommended. I learned plenty.
  
  The author's website provides lots of useful supplementary material, including some excellent video overviews, radio interviews and discussions. I liked the fact that Adele SOUNDED like a gentle, wise, effective person.
  
  I confess that I have a bias here. I believe that my own life has been influenced, and even transformed, whenever I've aligned with the yamas and niyamas over the last 15+ years. And as a result, I was in the process of writing my own (first) book on this long-neglected topic, emphasizing how it relates to progress in psychotherapy. Well, I still think there's a future in that book! Suffice it to say that I share the author's enthusiasm for her topic.
• I absolutely love this book. It is very accessible and easy to understand, you will not get lost in Sanskrit trying to understand the yamas and the niyamas with this book! I had to read this when I was going through a yoga teacher training program, and it was my very favorite of all of the book assignments. It's a short, easy read, and the author has a way of making the teachings very relatable to modern life. Fantastic.
• Well written, interesting, even has exercises for those looking to deepen their practice. I'm really enjoying slowly reading through it and would recommend it to everyone, regardless of religion! The yamas and niyamas are more basic life practices for being a good person rather than specific religious dogma.
• The Yamas & Niyamas is a wonderful book that I would recommend to anyone. The book focuses on being good to ourselves and others as well as being present in the moment through 5 Yamas (nonviolence, truthfulness, nonstealing, nonexcess, and nonpossessiveness) and 5 Niyamas (purity, contentment, self-discipline, self-study, and surrender). The concepts and ideas are very simple and inspiring but at the same time not obvious in everyday life. There are 4 weekly ideas and suggestions after each Yama and Niyama which I am going back through after reading it in full. They are personally challenging in a great way. There are so many fantastic insights for each and every one of these ideas. In yoga, the Yamas and Niyamas are considered 2/8 of the practice. Anyone practicing yoga or interested in self-improvement will love this book.
• It is difficult to add a review that has not already said everything good there is to say about this book. So, I add this here to help keep the 5 star rating for this book and simply say there is no better material on this topic that I have EVER come across as good as this. Cannot recommend highly enough.