niyama
नियम niyamaObservances or personal disciplines (such as purity and contentment), the second of the eight limbs.
Where this term appears
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
These govern how the practitioner meets the world. Niyama , the observances (2.32).
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
They are, in order: yama , the ethical restraints, and niyama , the observances; asana , steady posture; pranayama , the regulation of the breath; pratyahara , the withdrawal of the senses; and then the inner t…
- What is Yoga? Yoga
…attention and contemplation and concentration." In Sanskrit: yama and niyama (ethical restraints and observances), asana (posture), pranayama (breath regulation), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), and then…
- Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi: The Inner Three Yoga
The inward turn, completed Everything before these three has been preparation. The yamas and niyamas cleared the ethical ground.
- Pratyahara: Withdrawing the Senses Yoga
The first two limbs, the yamas and niyamas, set the conduct straight.
- The Yamas and Niyamas Yoga
…s the first limb, not a preamble It is tempting to read the yamas and niyamas as a warm-up, a list of nice qualities to get past on the way to the real, interesting practices of breath and meditation.
- The Sleeping Serpent Treatise
…na is explicit: "He whose nature is purified by the practice of Yama, Niyama, and the like, learns from the mouth of his Guru the process which opens the way to the discovery of the great Liberation." Note the …
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
… concentration, meditation and absorption are the eight limbs" ( yama-niyama-asana-pranayama-pratyahara-dharana-dhyana-samadhayo 'shtav angani , 2.29).