The Eight Limbs or Yoga Tree

This quarter we are revisiting the classical teachings of yoga.
The eight limbs are the whole of a yoga practice. When we see yoga as a tree with parts we cease to think of yoga as just poses with breathing techniques. We see it more as a practice that engages the body, mind and spirit at a deeper level which then makes us accountable for how we live.
This is how I like to teach and share my experience of yoga. We all come from different backgrounds, yet we are all familiar with ethical codes of behavior that we hold up as right and good. In yoga we are privileged to make time to reconnect with our thoughts, our actions, our feelings, our faith, our belief systems and the burdens that wear us down. The teachings remind us that we can reconnect with what is pure and whole within. The light in me, the light in you.
We also give names to aspect of our nature and can then make conscious choices. In other words we wake up.
Yoga is an opportunity to wake up to our life, to being alive , to living well.